HIKING PRESERVES

  1. Skoog Park & VLT Office (VLT)

  2. Grimes Park (American Legion)

  3. Armbrust Hill Town Park (TOVH)

  4. Boy Scout Point Town Park (TOVH)

  5. Lane’s Island Preserve (Nature Conservancy)

  6. Booth’s Quarry Town Park (TOVH)

  7. Narrows Town Park (TOVH)

  8. Arey’s Neck Woods & Geary’s Beach Town Park (TOVH)

  9. Huber Preserve (MCHT)

  10. Sunset Rock Town Park (TOVH)

  11. The Basin Preserve (MVHT & VLT)
    11a Granite Island Preserve & Story Trail
    11 b Basin Trail
    11c Watershed Preserve Trail
    11d Ralph & Peggy Williams Preserve

  12. Isle Au Haut Mountain Town Park (TOVH)

  13. Lawson’s Quarry Town Park (TOVH)

  14. Round Pond Trail (VLT)

  15. Lower Mill River Preserve (VLT)

  16. Carrying Place Preserve (MCHT)

  17. Eleanor L. Campbell Preserve (Polly Cove)

  18. Starboard Rock Sanctuary (VLT)

  19. Marcuse Wetlands Preserve (VLT)

  20. Middle Mountain Town Park (TOVH)

  21. Perry Creek Preserve (VLT)
    21a Andrew W. Smith Preserve at Fox Rocks
    21b North Perry Creek/Roy Dyer Trail

  22. Whitmore Pond Sanctuary (VLT)

  23. Tip Toe Mountain
    23a Tip Toe Town Park (TOVH)
    23b Tip Toe Mountain Preserve (VLT)

MCHT: Maine Coat Heritage Trust TOVH: Town of Vinalhaven VLT: Vinalhaven Land Trust

Guidelines to Preserve Use

Visitors to our preserves are invited to enjoy some of the traditional activities of Vinalhaven life, which include walking, snowshoeing, hunting (in season), wildlife observation, and plant study. Dogs under control and on the trail are welcome in most preserves. The preserves are open dawn to dusk; no fires, please.

Vinalhaven soils are thin and fragile and are easily disturbed. Vehicles, motorized or non-motorized, including bicycles and horses, are not allowed on any preserve. And should a trail or preserve have some degradation because of use or seasonal changes (think mud or runoff), we may temporarily re-route or close it to allow it to recover.

That said, our 17.5 miles of trails are in great shape, and we hope you take advantage of them! Trail guides and instructions on how to reach the trailheads are also available in our kiosk, just off the Sands Road, at 12 Skoog Park Road.

Thanks to three decades of generosity, we have many preserves for the public to enjoy.  We manage and monitor them carefully to protect habitat and water resources.  If you find anything amiss on one of our trails, please let us know. Enjoy the trails!

The Town of Vinalhaven, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, The Nature Conservancy, and the American Legion also have some wonderful parks and preserves, we show them here on our map, with links to as much information as available.

Printable Brochures

Armbrust Hill Town Park

Granite Island and Story Trails

Watershed Trail

Lower Mill River Preserve

Eleanor L. Campbell Preserve

Starboard Rock Sanctuary

Marcuse Wetlands Preserve

Middle Mountain Town Park

Perry Creek Conservation Area

Whitmore Pond Sanctuary

Tip Toe Mountain Preserve

New Trail App

Thanks to the work of a very generous volunteer, VLT now offers a free hiking app for smartphones.

The "VHtrails" app provides directions to the many preserves and parks on Vinalhaven with hiking trails as well as navigational support when on the trail.

VHtrails needs to be installed when connected to the Internet. Just search for "VHtrails" in the App Store (iPhone) or Play Store (Android). No further configuration is required after installation. However, you'll be asked to allow access to the device's location. For the navigation of the app to work as intended, you need to grant that permission.