A new trail section has been completed at Kate Furbish Preserve. This brings the total amount of trails available to the public up to 12-plus miles, including 3.3 miles of new single-track mountain bike trail.

The preserve offers two non-contiguous sections of trail named Furbish East and Furbish West. The department this year added a new paved parking space on property it owns adjacent to the Mere Creek Golf Course Clubhouse. The new lot provides for more immediate access to the Kate Furbish Preserve West trails and the larger Brunswick Landing interim perimeter trail, according to a news release from, Sabrina Best, deputy director of the Brunswick Parks & Recreation Department.

Staff are in the process of installing informational kiosks at trail entrances that will be located at:
• Coombs Road, a mountain bike trail entrance;
• Prince’s Point Road, a multi-use trail entrance; and
•  Ordinance Road, a multi-use trail entrance (located near the former military bunkers).

Visit brunswickme.org under the Parks and Recreation section in 2023 for updates on trial signage, information kiosks and a ribbon cutting ceremony.

“Being a town that is dedicated to engaging their residents and visitors in recreational opportunities, this project falls in line with our department’s mission and initiatives,” said Dennis Wilson, Brunswick’s parks and facilities manager.

Parks and recreation staff worked with in collaboration with the Six Rivers Chapter of the Northeast Mountain Bike Association — and its members Kristin Jhamb, Paul Burns, Reggie Lebel, Alex Long and Jaret Reblin — to develop a bike trail system that was environmentally friendly and sustainable, to complete the final length of the Kate Furbish trail system.

The Kate Furbish Preserve is a 591-acre parcel that was previously conveyed to the town of Brunswick by the U.S. Navy via the U.S. Department of the Interior. It is the largest of the town’s open space properties located at Brunswick Landing and offers primarily passive non-motorized recreation activities, including hiking, trail running, hunting, fishing and shared use trails for winter cross country skiing and snowshoeing, and now mountain biking.

For more information, visit brunswickme.org, call 207-725-6656 or email recprograms@brunswickme.org.

 

 

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