, which has information about completed , which has information about completed www.EasternTrail.org Portland Trails; Portland’s Old Port; Prouts Neck; Higgins Beach; Crescent Portland Trails; Portland’s Old Port; Lights State Park; Scarborough Beach Beach State Park; Kettle Cove; Two and Casco Bay; Portland Head Light, the Park; views of Calendar Islands one of the most photographed lighthouses oldest lighthouse in the country and Maine in the world, commissioned by George Washington in 1797; Southern Ledge Community College campus; Portland Harbor Museum; Spring Point Light Generally good; wide paved shoulder on ME 77 in Cape Elizabeth streets and Use caution on bridge and crossing Broadway at traffic light; some roads have no shoulders. Rides originate in Portland or South Portland: Park-n-Ride lot on Marginal Way. Take Exit 7, Franklin Street, off I-295 in a left onto Portland. At first traffic light immediately after the off-ramp, take Marginal Way. The large Park-n-Ride lot will be on your left. Portland Transportation Center (connections to Amtrak’s service or interstate bus service). Take Exit 5 from I-295. Bug Light parking lot. Take ME 77 over Casco Bay Bridge to South Portland, parking lot. go straight on Broadway to end. Take left on Breakwater Drive to Gentle terrain, Gentle terrain For mass transit and accommodation information, see p. 10. For mass transit and accommodation The scenic 22-mile+ and 30-mile+ rides have three different starting points and then take similar three different starting points and and 30-mile+ rides have The scenic 22-mile+ and a Portland has a working waterfront quintessential view of coastal Maine. routes, offering a shipping port. centuries, this was once a busy district. In the 18th and 19th picturesque shopping out toward the on the Casco Bay Bridge and head cross over the Fore River From Portland, cyclists the way at state and municipal parks with lovely sand beaches, coast with opportunities to stop along lighthouse museums. The 30-mile+ ride takes you to Prouts historic lighthouses, and two interesting lived and painted. Neck, where artist Winslow Homer 22+-mile: all cyclists for almost 30+-mile: for almost all some hills, cyclists in Eastern Trail, the southernmost part of the East Coast Greenway Parts of both rides follow the on-road with great signage. If you want to travel the entire length Maine. This trail is currently mostly go to of the Eastern Trail (not a loop), section in the back of this book. off-road sections. Also see the trail car train or bus to the Portland Transportation Center or park your Take the Downeaster Amtrak The Marginal Way Park-n-Ride lot and the parking lot at Bug Light there at an inexpensive daily rate. a you arrive, you can bike from there on an exciting adventure in are free. No matter how or where very popular part of Maine. Special features: Road conditions: Cautions: Starting points:
SHORE RD. SPRING POINT LEDGE LIGHT
SHORE DR.
SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE PREBLE ST. Simonton Cove WILLARD BEACH 33.8
35.2
FORT RD. FORT FORT RD. 34.4/ FORT 35.5
34.4
PREBLE ST. PREBLE ST. ST. PREBLE PICKETT
34.7 WOODLAND RD. WOODLAND BUG LIGHT BUG POINT C START FINISH 35.7
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Portland Harbor Portland
ST. EASTERN PROM TRAIL PROM 2.3/39.3 EASTERN
4.2 OLD PORT AVE. SOUTH PORTLAND GE R Mill Cove EASTERN 77
PORTLAND OCEAN ST. 3.5 77
26 COTTAGE RD.
EASTERN PROM TRAIL ST. 37.1
ST. SAWYER
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GREENBELT COMMERCIAL ST. COMMERCIAL WAY BROAD
1A FORE ST. FORE FERRY
WASHINGTON AVE. 37.3
3.2/37.4 TERMINAL BROADWAY
PORTLAND 1A WAY PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FERRY TERMINAL HIGHLAND 38.5 77 POINT A START FINISH WATERMANTERMAN DR.DR. INTERNATIONAL MARGINAL WAY PARK-RIDE WAY MARGINAL 77 0.0/41.6 FRANKLIN 1A
ST. 0.0 1A ST. 1 295
0.5/41.1
BAY CONGRESS ST. KIOSK EXIT 8 EXIT
CASCO BRIDGE
2.2 77 ST. BEACH
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MARGINAL PARK ST. CUMBERLAND CASCO BAY STATE Portland Trails Portland to Cape Elizabeth Ride Portland 295
1A HIGH PORTLAND SOUTH
EXIT 7 Fore River Fore ST.
1 H COMMERCIAL ST. COMMERCIAL
77 PLEASANTDALE DANFORTH
STATE ST. COMMERCIAL W BROADWAY EXIT 6 26 Back Cove Back 1
1 WEST END BROADWAY BAXTER BLVD. BAXTER PORTLAND/ SOUTH PORTLAND
GREATER PORTLAND & CASCO BAY REGION _ 22+-mile: Gentle terrain for almost all cyclists Tour 14 Portland Cape Elizabeth_ 30+-mile: Gentle terrain, some hills, for almost all cyclists Lighthouses The Current; Photo by Cliff White, brochure cover of 2009 Eastern Trail
GREATER PORTLAND & CASCO BAY REGION _ 22+-mile: Gentle terrain for almost all cyclists Tour 14 Portland Cape Elizabeth_ 30+-mile: Gentle terrain, some hills, Lighthouses for almost all cyclists