La Verna Preserve

Top choice in Midcoast Maine


This forested nature reserve is pretty compact, but within its confines there are 2.5 miles of trails and some 3600ft of shoreline. This waterfront is particularly arresting, all slabbed teeth of layered rock jawing into the waves of the Atlantic; a little way inland, those rocks are studded with small opalescent tide pools.


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