QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 19 acres
- Trail Mileage: 0.9 miles in network
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: moderate
- Sights: Harraseeket estuary salt marsh, hemlock forest
These pretty Freeport Conservation Trust trails snake through forest—with a few ups and downs and along the steep sides of what I think are glacial eskers—before coming out on a marsh with a windy olive-green stream. The first 0.2 miles takes along the edge of a field and underneath stately old trees. After crossing a stream, you’ll come to the trail intersection. If you go right, on the Bear Caves Trail, you’ll reach the marsh in about 0.4 miles, after passing through forest with some dramatic hills. If you go left at the intersection, on Over the Hills Trail, you have another 0.3 miles or so to the estuary. Both destinations are pretty.
Directions: From the intersection of Wolfe’s Neck Road and Flying Point Road, you’ll drive 0.2 miles down Wolfe’s Neck Rock. The small parking area and trailhead are on the right.
