QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 124 acres
- Trail Mileage: ~1 mile one way
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: Spartina saltmarsh
Maquoit Bay is a there-and-back 1.0-mile trail, protected by the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, that brings you through a forest to a rocky outcrop on the shallow Maquoit Bay. Because the path follows an old woods road, it’s quite wide and fairly flat. It gets a touch hairier at the end, near the bay, where it narrows and becomes rootier. And it will be hard for people with bad knees to scramble down to the rocks, but it is well worth it!
At high tide, people can slip off the rocks to swim in the relatively warm waters. (We’ve seen young people swimming here in March! Gulp.)
Directions: The fairly large parking lot for the trailhead is on Bunganuc Road, about .6 miles from the intersection with Woodside Road. The trailhead will be on the left is you’re coming from Woodside Road.
