QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 6,800 acres
- Trail Mileage: 2.9-mile loop
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: moderate
- Sights: brook, wooded 854-ft. summit area with views through trees
The Sanders Hill trail offers an easy, gradual climb, and a good loop, but the views aren’t as nice as they are elsewhere in the 6,800-acre Kennebec Highlands. Beaver Brook, which you walk along for some of the trail, is quite pretty. In addition to a well-blazed, well-maintained hiking trail, there are unimproved trails winding through this area and the rest of the Highlands that look, while a bit rough, like they could be fun to explore (and bike). Some people follow them to Vienna Mountain, which is beautiful.
The trail bypasses the 853-foot summit.
Directions: 1.3 miles south of Watson Pond Road’s junction with Route 27, there is a small parking area on the right.
