Pope Conservation Area

As of May, 2019, this 35.6-acre property in Auburn with .2 miles of frontage on Lake Auburn became forever conserved to protect public drinking water quality and other important natural services, including wildlife habitat, the preservation of Lake Auburn’s scenic,...

French Falls Recreation Area

French Falls is a 29.4-acre riverside property in Jay, Maine owned by Androscoggin Land Trust.  The property is located in the Village of Chisholm situated between Route 4 and the Androscoggin River and includes trails that run through the property and to the...

Otis Falls Mill Recreation Area

In 2013 Mary Howes and Tim DeMillo generously donated a Recreation Trails Easement to Androscoggin Land Trust.   The easement ensures public access to the Otis Falls Mill property, which previously had been closed off to the public for over a century. Components of...

Purinton Homestead Conservation Area

Purinton Homestead Conservation Area, an undeveloped and traditional rural agrarian and forest preserve with 1 mile of walking trails in the village of West Bowdoin, was generously donated to the Androscoggin Land Trust in 2001 by the Purinton Family. The Preserve...

Sherwood Forest Conservation Area

The Sherwood Forest Conservation Area (also known as the Alexander-Harkins Preserve) contains 28 acres of forest and fields owned by the Androscoggin Land Trust adjacent to Sherwood Heights School and another 50 acres owned by the City of Auburn. The two properties...

Huston Farm Conservation Area

Androscoggin Land Trust conserves almost 90 acres within the Huston Farm Conservation Area, a significant area of farmland protection and open space within urban New Auburn.  ALT owns 27 acres here while holding a conservation easement on an additional 62 acres of...

Garcelon Bog Conservation Area

The Garcelon Bog conservation easement protects over 100 acres of ecologically significant wetland in the heart of Lewiston, the second largest urban area in Maine. This land is a unique ecological feature in the City, and contains a variety of natural habitat types...

David Rancourt River Preserve

  This 14-acre preserve is owned by the Androscoggin Land Trust and is a component of the Androscoggin Greenway. The property was purchased from the City of Lewiston with Land for Maine’s Future water access funds in 2007. The property contains an...

Barker Mill Trail

This is an approximately ¾ mile trail along the Little Androscoggin River in New Auburn.   The property is privately owned by David Frank and ALT holds a license permitting the existence of the trail and trail maintenance. The trail starts off Mill St. in New Auburn...

Jones-Bonney Turner Village Park

The Bonney family generously donated approximately five acres of land along Route 4 and the Nezinscot River, an Androscoggin tributary, to Androscoggin Land Trust in 2007 for the development of a village park. In 2009, Maine’s Department of Transportation...

Spruce Mountain Conservation Area

This 143.6-acre property in Jay near the Spruce Mountain Ski Area overlooks the former French Falls in the Androscoggin River, a drop of six feet in the river that was blasted and mostly removed during the early industrialization of the area. The original 117-acre...

Alden Hill Conservation Area

This property of 380 acres features tall white pines thriving in the thin, hillier soils on the east side of Alden Hill Road. West of the road stands of sugar maple and white pine dominate the hardwood forests along the Androscoggin River. Previously partially...