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  • Deer Hollow/Mud Pond Nature Reserve — A smallish preserve with unmarked but visible trails and a small platform overlooking the pond. 
  • Chaffin Pond Preserve at Donna Lippman Park — This is a lovely, kid-friendly place, with a playground, a kids’ trail and a boardwalk. 
  • Dundee Park — Probably not very fun to walk here during summer, when people flock here to swim at the sandy beach, but this is a pretty and pretty quiet place during the off-season. You’re not allowed to bring dogs here, but I am not sure if that rule applies to the off season? The path is very short.
  • Otterbrook Nature Sanctuary — This was a little neglected when I visited in the fall of 2016. 
  • Black Brook Preserve — This, in contrast to Otterbrook Sanctuary, was rather lovingly tended to, with many trails, some of them still being developed in the fall of 2016, it seems. I recommend the Diamond Trail. 
  • Lowell Preserve and East Windham Conservation Area— 700 acres here to explore! With a scenic vista, access to Little Duck Pond, and an accessible trail on the way. It also connects to this area’s massive interconnected trail system. 
  • Sea to Sebago Trail — This long-distance biking or walking path goes from Portland to Sebago Lake theoretically, but it is still in the works. The most developed part, I think, is the section from Windham through Gorham to Standish and the lake — and it’s great. Great biking.
  • Windham High School trail — This short (.8-mile or so) trail is unmarked but easily to follow. It starts near the track and heads to the Pleasant River and a little wetland.
  • Gilman Falls — A 1.2-mile walk, much of it along ATV track, brings you to an open area by the falls.