Amazing experience... Carl, Margaret, and family have a real love for what they do! The goats are…read morefabulous animals, each with their own names and characteristics ! All ages will love this adventure!

Called to see if they had any fresh cheese while we would be diving by - lucky they did. Karl &…read moreMargaret invited us in to feed the baby goats and bought a tub of fresh chèvre that was delicious with some cracker and local honey. Just a great experience!

This review is for the trail that creates a loop with the Royal River Park…read more Access is along Melissa Drive and there is no street parking. The other end of the trail is in the business park off Forest Drive where Pet Scripts, Forest Falls Cafe and many other businesses are. This is business park is also parking during the Yarmouth Clam Festival each year. We came across this lovely little section of trail while walking around Royal River Park and wanted to make a loop instead of turning back and the way we had come. There are lovely views of the falls and you can look across the water to the Park. The houses along this section are amazing and they certainly struck it rich with the view! The path is short and is dirt but mostly even. There is a section of wall built to give the homeowners some privacy. Please stay on the trail and dogs are to be leashed and picked up after. Be aware that this land is almost all privately owned and there is a just a path that is a public way. You must carry in and carry out.

I'm not entirely sure how I ended up at Knight's Pond Preserve... a free afternoon on a sunny…read moreautumn day tends to inspire me to get outside and play, and before I knew it I was driving down what seemed like a very long driveway (Greely Road Extension) that eventually deposited me at a parking lot. The 300-acre preserve is the largest undeveloped parcel in Cumberland and was "created" in 2015 after conservation efforts led to the acquisition of a major portion of the land. The preserve features a 46-acre pond with an adjacent smaller pond that seems dammed-in (the trail doesn't lead to the stone wall that holds the water, but you can walk over carefully to see) that connects during wetter seasons - there's a wooden bridge to cross into the woods over any water that may be there, a fantastic trail system with great signage through dense woods (there's enough variety here that you could make your hike as short or as long as you like - personally, I like the White trail to the Blue trail, a digression to the FAA tower, to the Red trail, back to the White trail), views of Casco Bay and Mount Washington (on super clear days) from the ridgeline, an FAA radar tower, tons of birds... it's just a very, very nice spot. I came just to walk around and don't feel like I had the opportunity to see everything making me really excited to come back and explore more. Apparently in the winter it's a great spot for pick-up hockey games and ice skating, as well as snowshoeing! I'll be inside drinking bourbon and hiding from the cold then, but if you start to feel like you're getting cabin fever know this is an accessible spot year round!

I found this trail today on Google Maps when looking for a place to run near my hotel. The…read moretrailhead itself is located down Tyler drive and has its own parking lot with more than ample parking. It is a blue blazed trail with offshoots of at least yellow and orange which seem to link back up to the main trail. It is an easy to follow trail although there are a lot of roots which makes you pay attention and if you are moving at a decent clip, not see as much of the scenery as you would like. In the short distance that I used it for it had a lot of features like bridges across creeks, boards across wet spots and even a little set of switchbacks to get you heart going in a short but steep little climb. During my run I saw lots of tire tracks from mountain bikes and a couple of mountain bikers as well as a lady walking her unleashed dog. The bottom line for me is that I would head back here again in the future. I really enjoyed my easy paced run here and only wish that my schedule had more mileage for me on the day.

Neat network of mixed-use trails with some elevation gain and a pond view. Every trail intersection…read morehas a map so you can see where you are and make decisions about which way to go. I did a little over a mile loop with a friend, then about 4 miles doing the full purple loop, stopping at a bench next to the pond for some zen. These trails are easy to get to from Gray, Windham, West Falmouth or Gorham, and has plenty of parking, but on this cloudy day we only saw a few other people and I had the purple trail all to myself. This conservation area abuts another in Falmouth and the trails join so you could explore both areas, but alas that will have to be another day.

There are so many amazing trails throughout all of Maine; and each one is probably someone's…read morefavorite. If this is your go-to spot, I'm sorry for what I'm about to say. But, for me, Chandler Brook Preserve - part of the Royal River Conservation Trust - left a lot to be desired compared to similar preserves and natural spaces (we are fortunate to live in such an incredible state that has so, so many!). I was unimpressed by the lack of signage and markings on the trail system/pathways. We take a lot of hikes and nature walks and never get turned around -- here we did. There seem to be both designated paths and created paths "through" things from overusing "shortcuts" (does that make sense)? That was definitely part of our confusion. The fields/meadows are beautiful; but the brook itself is pretty murky -- it looked like a river of coffee. And also, the banks of the brook are incredibly eroded/are eroding and not barriered off (you'll see this in my photos with the ladder), so be careful where you step. For that matter, there's also old barbwire near some of the paths, so - again - be very careful where you step. Maybe it's much different during the fall or for equestrian use, but this is not a trail that I would recommend.