Grinnell Woods

The Grinnell family, which has created an easement on their land, invite the public to walk along a parcel wedged between a brook and a bog that brings you to a knoll of beautiful old conifers and a lovely spot by a stream that feeds the Medomak River.

The trail begins as an easy, wide track covered with wood chips, bringing you through a forest clear-cut in the last century. It crosses a power line corridor and 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 where it departs the younger forest and heads up a hill through older-growth trees and the light dims. Here the trail narrows and becomes a little less easy.

When you reach the top of the knoll, at about 0.6 miles, you’ll find the roughly 0.5-mile loop trail, Little Medomak Loop, that brings you to the brook. It was flagged with tape in the fall of 2025 and easy to follow.

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. The address is 241 Rockland Road.