Knight’s Pond Preserve, Cumberland

The trails in Cumberland, Falmouth, Windham, and North Yarmouth are very well connected. In my map above, Knight’s Pond Preserve is in light blue.

Farwell Forest in lavender; Rines Forest in green; Hadlock Forest in maroon; Falmouth Town Forest trails in dark blue; Falmouth Community Park in yellow; Blackstrap Preserve in orange; North Falmouth Community Forest in white. Not shown on this map are the connected trails of Greely Woods and Lowell Preserve (East Windham Conservation Area.)

Knight’s Pond is part of a large, multi-town trail system. 

But just walking around this preserve is sufficient! The trail system at Knight’s Pond is well marked, with maps posted at most intersections. The pond especially is gorgeous year-round, but particularly pretty in the fall. You’ll be able to hear the FAA tower when you’re close to it — it makes a low whirring sound. There’s a mix of footpaths and wider snowmobile tracks in the preserve, with the foot paths marked on the map.

Another nice part of the preserve is on the southern end of the preserve, near Blueberry Hill. On your way to the wooded Blueberry Hill via the wide red and orange trails, you’ll pass over ledges in a fairly open area, where the trees open up a bit.

You can access the preserve from the Cumberland side, off Greeley Road Ext., or its North Yarmouth Side, where there is a medium-sized lot off Wildlife Lane. From North Yarmouth, the trail starts just around the corner from the lot, off Village View Lane, reachable by sidewalk. Though it begins as a wide, crushed-gravel path, it quickly changes over to a regular woods path that was easy to follow but not marked when I walked it. It’s about 0.6 miles to the power lines.

Directions: The main lot is off the Greeley Road Extension. From the intersection with Route 9, drive about 1.23 miles and you’ll see a large parking lot on your right. The trail system starts from the back corner of the lot. You can also park in a medium-sized lot off Wildlife Lane, in North Yarmouth.