QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: more than 400 acres
- Trail Mileage: ~5 miles in network
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy to moderate
- Sights: woods
Trails in blue are North Falmouth Community Forest. Trails in red are Lowell Preserve (East Windham Conservation Area); trails in orange are Blackstrap Hill Preserve.
The trails in Cumberland, Falmouth, and Windham are well connected. Here is my attempt at a map that roughly shows the multi-town interconnected trail system.
The North Falmouth Community Forest trail network—which is color coded and well signed, with occasional maps at intersections—has just about 5 miles of trails, so you can do a sizable walk or bike ride before heading over to Blackstrap Hill Preserve, if you want to keep going. On the other side, the trail network also links up with the vast Lowell Preserve/East Windham Conservation Area. From the trailhead on Blackstrap Road to Lowell Preserve, it’s roughly 2.3 miles.
You can access the North Falmouth Community Forest trail system from Blackstrap Road (and Blackstrap Hill Preserve), or from a development off of Babbidge Road, on the Oxwood Woods Drive.
The trail network begins with a hill, and in about 0.3 miles reaches an overlook with a decent view of the area—for this elevation!
Directions: This preserve shares a good-sized parking lot with Blackstrap Hill Preserve on Blackstrap Road. The lot is about half a mile north of the intersection of Babbidge Road and Blackstrap Road, and just a ways up from Hemlock Cove Road.
