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July 2019
Mount Abraham
The Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust’s latest community hike will be on Saturday, July 27th, starting at 9am! This is a challenging, 9.1-mile hike (total distance) that traverses varied terrain via the Fire Warden Trail. This trail meanders through woods before climbing steeply and emerging on a rocky slope above treeline. It is a great hike on one of Maine’s most spectacular and important mountains. And it's free to come along! More information about the trail can be found here: Maine…
Find out more »August 2019
Puzzle Mountain Hike
Our next community hike trip of the 2019 warm season will be up Puzzle Mountain on August 17th! We will meet at 9:30am at the trailhead (shown on the map below) which is at the Grafton Loop parking lot. The distance from the parking area to the summit is 3.6 miles and should take approximately 3 hours. So, total hike will be 7.2 miles over about 6 hours. This is a strenuous hike due to overall length and elevation gain…
Find out more »Saddleback Mountain Visual Resource Inventory Hike
*************This event is full!************************ Our upcoming community hike on the A.T. will be up the Berry Pickers Trail to The Horn and Saddleback Mountain on Sunday, August 25th - this will be a hike for the National Park Service Visual Resource Inventory project! You should contact us at info@matlt.org if you want to attend. An exact description of the route can be found here at Maine Trail Finder: Berry Picker’s Trail We are going to head up to the Horn…
Find out more »September 2019
Goose Eye Mountain Hike
Our latest community hike will be up 3,862-foot Goose Eye Mountain in Grafton Notch on September 7th at 9am! For many years this mountain was only accessible for a day hike by heading over to New Hampshire at Success Pond Road. The Wright Trail, an official Appalachian Trail side trail, was constructed to provide for a direct route to the heart of the Mahoosucs, in particular the State of Maine-designated Ecological Reserve area which covers most of Goose Eye Mountain.…
Find out more »Cranberry Peak Hike
Our next Community Hike will be up Cranberry Peak (3,214 feet) in the Bigelow Range via the Bigelow Range Trail on September 21st! We will meet in the trailhead parking area at the end of Currie Street (sometimes spelled “Curry”) in Stratton at 9:30am on Saturday, September 21st. This will be an up-and-back hike up the Bigelow Range Trail, with a distance of 3.2 miles each way for a total distance of 6.4 miles. The trail is moderate for most of…
Find out more »October 2019
Little Bigelow Hike
Our next A.T. community hike will take place on October 19th – we will be tackling Little Bigelow, the long, lower peak at the east end of the Bigelow Range. We just hiked this mountain in October but it’s so awesome that we wanted to do it again in the snow! This hike is approximately 6.2 miles in length and should take at least 6 hours start to finish. It features spectacular views of the Bigelow Range, Flagstaff Lake and…
Find out more »January 2020
Eddy Pond and Piazza Rock Hike
The first Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust Community Winter Hike will be on Saturday, January 18th with a meetup time of 9:30am. The destination will be Piazza Rock (a big rock) and Eddy Pond (a nice pond, shown above) on the A.T. going up Saddleback Mountain. The distance to Piazza Rock is 1.8 miles, and Eddy Pond is about 1.9 mile beyond that. Altogether, there and back, the distance is 7.4 miles. This is a strenuous hike that has ups…
Find out more »February 2020
Caribou Mountain Hike
Our next Community Hike of the winter will be on Saturday, February 8th at 9:30am. We will be heading up Caribou Mountain in the White Mountain National Forest. While the mountain is not directly on the Appalachian Trail it is on Forest Service land (like much of the A.T. landscape to the south) and there are great views of areas where the trail passes to the west and north. Plus it is one of our favorite trips! We will be…
Find out more »Four Ponds Hike
Our next Community Hike will be held on Saturday, February 22nd at 9am to Four Ponds/Spruce Mountain. This 2,530-foot summit is very close to the famous Height of Land overlook, which is where we will meet at 9am on the opposite side of the road from the parking area (details will be provided in the organizer’s email). We can proceed to the summit of Spruce Mountain and then down the backside to series of remote, high-elevation ponds within the Maine Bureau…
Find out more »March 2020
Old Speck Hike
The latest Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust community hike will be up Old Speck in Grafton Notch! This challenging yet awesome hike will run via the Appalachian Trail for a total roundtrip hike of 7.6 miles. The summit elevation is 4,170 feet – the fifth highest summit in Maine and the highest in the Mahoosucs/Grafton Notch area. This hike will be Sunday, March 1st at 9am. We will meet in the Grafton Notch parking lot on the west side of…
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