Coastal Trails of Maine: Including Acadia National Park

by Dolores Kong, Dan Ring

Overview

Maine has one of the longest coastlines in the United States (by one estimation even exceeding that of California), and with nearly 55% of the state’s population living in a coastal county the Maine coast remains a popular and populated area of the northeast. Coastal Trails of Maine celebrates this vibrant region by offering the best hikes along Maine’s gorgeous coast. Written by local experts and NOBA winners, Dolores Kong and Dan Ring, Coastal Trails of Maine will offer everything hikers will need to explore this treasured shoreline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493037377
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/15/2021
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	1,079,685
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Dolores Kong and Dan Ring have backpacked all 270 miles of the Appalachian Trail in Maine and have climbed virtually all the peaks that are 4,000 feet and higher in the Northeast. They are members of the White Mountains Four Thousand Footer, the New England Four Thousand Footer, the Adirondack 46Rs, the Northeast 111ers, and the New England Hundred Highest Clubs. A Barnard College graduate, Dolores is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in public service from her previous career as a staff writer at the Boston Globe. A Boston College graduate, Dan is a writer and has been a statehouse bureau chief in Boston for a variety of newspapers. Dan and Dolores are married and live outside Boston.

Table of Contents

Overview Map vi

Meet Your Guides vii

Acknowledgments viii

How to Use This Guide x

Trail Finder xiii

Top Five Hikes xvi

Before You Hit the Trail xviii

Map Legend xxiv

The Hikes

Southern Coast and Greater Portland 1

1 Marginal Way 4

2 Wells Reserve at Laudholm 9

3 Vaughn Island 16

4 Timber Point Trail 21

5 Ferry Beach State Park 26

6 Crescent Beach and Kettle Cove State Parks 32

7 Fort Williams Park 39

8 Spring Point Shoreway 44

9 Mackworth Island 52

10 Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park 57

Breweries, Eats, and Sleeps 63

Camping 65

Lighthouses, Museums, and Historic Sites 65

Coastal Attractions 66

Midcoast 67

11 Bowdoin College Schiller Coastal Studies Center 70

12 Giant's Stairs 76

13 Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area 80

14 Popham Beach State Park 86

15 Josephine Newman Audubon Sanctuary 94

16 Reid State Park 99

17 Ovens Mouth Preserve 105

18 LaVerna Preserve 112

19 Monhegan Island 118

20 Camden Hills State Park 126

Breweries, Eats, and Sleeps 131

Camping 133

Lighthouses, Museums, and Historic Sites 133

Coastal Attractions 134

Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor 135

21 Indian Pont Blagden Preserve (Bar Harbor) 138

22 The Shore Path (Bar Harbor) 143

23 Bar Island Trail 147

24 Compass Harbor Trail 152

25 Sand Beach and Great Head Trail 156

26 Ocean Path 161

27 Gorham Mountain and Cadillac Cliffs Trails 166

28 Cadillac Summit Loop Trail 171

29 Flying Mountain Trail 177

30 Wonderland 181

31 Ship Harbor Trail 185

32 Baker Island (Acadia-Cranberry Isles) 189

33 Sundew Trail (Acadia-Schoodic Peninsula) 195

Breweries, Eats, and Sleeps 199

Camping 199

Lighthouses, Museums, and Historic Sites 200

Coastal Attractions 200

Downeast 201

34 Witherle Woods Preserve 204

35 Holbrook Island Sanctuary 210

36 Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge-Birch Point 216

37 Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge-Hollingsworth 222

38 Great Wass Island Preserve 230

39 Cutler Coast Public Reserved Land 236

40 Quoddy Head State Park 244

41 Mowry Beach Preserve 254

Breweries, Eats, and Sleeps 259

Camping 261

Lighthouses, Museums, and Historic Sites 261

Coastal Attractions 262

Hike Index 264