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By Sarra Sedghi |  August 31, 2016  |  12:30pm | Photos: Tom Hilton/Flickr and Kenneth Casper/Flickr Maine’s Eastern Trail, a segment of the ever-growing East Coast Greenway, runs from Portland to Kennebunk and currently exists in three stretches connected by on-road cycling routes. Along the way, you’ll see passing sailboats, scenes from downtown Portland, remains of…

Portland Press Herald, Letters, Posted August 26, 2016 It’s summer on the coast of Maine, and there’s no better time of year to appreciate the value of the Eastern Trail. For those who aren’t already frequent users, the Eastern Trail system traverses 65 miles between Kittery and South Portland. It’s part of the larger East…

Conde Nash Traveler | Written by Sebastian Modak |   July 25, 2016 It’s like the Appalachian Trail for bikes. It’s been under discussion since the early 1990s, so you’d be forgiven for thinking the East Coast Greenway—a nearly 3,000-mile paved bike trail that would extend from Calais, Maine to Key West, Florida—is nothing but…

FROM STAFF REPORTS – Journal Tribune BIDDEFORD — A new trail sign was installed recently on the Biddeford portion of the Eastern Trail. When completed, the trail will run 65 miles from Kittery to South Portland. The artwork on the new sign depicts beavers and other area wildlife, and was created by artist Jada Fitch.

One organization is working to connect cities and towns from Maine to Florida with protected trails. by EILLIE ANZILOTTI | published Jun 28, 2016 From northern Maine to the tip of Florida, the East Coast of the United States stretches 3,000 miles. It’s a diverse, expansive route, cutting through wooded hills and rocky coastlines before…

Kate Irish Collins, kcollins@keepmecurrent.com – May 19, 2016 The final push is on to raise the remaining $1 million needed by the end of the year to build two new bridges on the Eastern Trail that would close a 1.6-mile gap between Scarborough and South Portland. Construction of the bridges, one over the Nonesuch River…