QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 96 acres
- Trail Mileage: 0.8 mile one way
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: Little Medomak Brook, mature forest
The Grinnell family, which has created an easement on their land, invite the public to walk along a parcel that’s wedged between a brook and a bog and leads to a knoll of beautiful old forest.
The trail begins through a woods that was clear-cut in the last century. It weaves through a power line and crosses a little bridge where the brook kisses the bog. You’ll pass a large boulder, I assume it’s an erratic? The most dramatic part of the trail is near the end when it departs the younger forest and heads up a hill through a patch of old conifers and the light dims.
Though the official map indicates a little lollipop loop at the end of the trail that brings you to the brook, we got a bit confused and weren’t able to find it, sadly! The trail we walked is 0.8 miles one way and was marked with pink flagging. We’ll be back after the snow melts to try again!
Directions: The trail is marked with a prominent sign for Grinnell Woods off Route 17 (Augusta Road), about 1.1 miles west of the intersection with Route 220 (Waldoboro Road). There is a large parking lot and trailhead kiosk.
