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It’s one of 36 Hall of Fame Trails across the country, and one of only four in New England. By Diane Bair and Pamela Wright | Globe Correspondent | Updated September 7, 2022, 10:06 a.m. An hour ago, we were battling the crazy traffic on Route 1 and the crowds in Kennebunkport, Maine. And now?…

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Hundreds of cyclists hit the Eastern Trail for the Maine Lighthouse Ride on Saturday. Bikers gathered at Spring Point Ledge Light on the Southern Maine Community College campus and left in groups throughout the morning. Participants biked between 25 to 100 miles and passed seven to nine lighthouses, depending on the…

By William Hall | Published in MaineBiz August 24, 2022 The Eastern Trail — a greenway that ultimately will run 65 miles between Kittery and South Portland — is steadily bolstering Maine’s outdoor recreation economy. And now a national conservation group has honored the trail for the path it’s blazed. The ET was inducted this…

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), the nation’s largest trails organization, has announced that Maine’s Eastern Trail would join its Rail-Trail Hall of Fame—an exemplary group of rail-trails nationwide celebrated for the social, economic and quality-of-life value they bring to the communities they serve. “The Eastern Trail is an increasingly special place in southern coastal Maine,” said Eric…

Take a look at a new Promotional Video for the Eastern Trail: The video was developed in part to help with generating support for the public voting related to the Eastern Trail’s nomination to the Rail-Trail Conservancy’s Rail-Trail Hall of Fame (see separate story here).

“In a lot of ways, the Eastern Trail is a model of what could happen in the state.” —Jeremy Cluchey, volunteer member of the Maine Trails Coalition A couple times a week, Bob Hamblen takes to the Eastern Trail on his bike, riding through various sections of the route that traverses 28 miles of southern…

A $700,000 federal grant will help convert on-road trail portions of 55-mile network to off-road. View the news video and read the entire article online here. KENNEBUNK, Maine — Michael and Charlene Flynn are serious trail bicyclists. It’s a part of their routine. “It’s very important, just to be able to get out and do…

On Friday, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and members from the Eastern Trail Alliance and the East Coast Greenway Alliance celebrated $700,000 in new federal funding to expand the Eastern Trail with an event in Kennebunk. The funding, secured by Pingree in the Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations Bill alongside nine other community projects, will expand the…

A University of New England project is documenting animal’s use of the area for the Eastern Trail Alliance. BY DREW JOHNSON | THE FORECASTER/PORTLAND PRESS HERALD | PUBLISHED APRIL 27, 2022 Wildlife abounds in the 1.6-mile gap between the Eastern Trail in Scarborough and where the trail picks up in South Portland, and for the past…