Hiking trails near Ellsworth, Maine

76 official trails lie within 25 miles of Ellsworth — 121 miles in total, 63 rated easy and 1 hard or expert. Every distance and elevation figure below is computed from the agency centerline and a 10 m elevation model, not crowd-sourced.

The biggest climb nearby gains 1,107 ft; the median trail gains 136 ft.

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24 trails worth the drive

Trail	Miles	Climb	Difficulty	Drive from town
Caribou Loop	5.3	781 ft	Hard	1 h 01 min · 25 mi
Tunk Maintain Ridge Loop	3.8	955 ft	Moderate	44 min · 24 mi
Black Cliff Trail	2.7	823 ft	Moderate	54 min · 23 mi
Capstone Trail	3.2	499 ft	Moderate	34 min · 19 mi
Becton Trail	1.8	576 ft	Easy	31 min · 16 mi
Bald Bluff Trail	1.6	451 ft	Easy	1 h 04 min · 30 mi
Mead Mtn Trail	1.6	514 ft	Easy	27 min · 15 mi
Mount Tuck trail	2.1	392 ft	Easy	44 min · 27 mi
Stuart Gross Trail	1.1	587 ft	Easy	34 min · 19 mi
Caribou Bog Trails	2.5	162 ft	Easy	54 min · 32 mi
Oak Hill Trail	1.5	419 ft	Easy	26 min · 15 mi
The Richard Trail	1.5	250 ft	Easy	45 min · 25 mi
Partridge Pond Trail	1.3	328 ft	Easy	48 min · 26 mi
Redmans Beach Trail	1.2	355 ft	Easy	42 min · 21 mi
Post Office Trail	1.1	331 ft	Easy	33 min · 17 mi
Seaside Path	1.4	204 ft	Easy	54 min · 28 mi
Schoodic Bog Trail	1.6	136 ft	Easy	42 min · 21 mi
Hastings Trail	1.3	110 ft	Easy	11 min · 6 mi
Teaberry Hill Trail	1.3	107 ft	Easy	51 min · 31 mi
Sandy Point Beach Path	2.1	54 ft	Easy	45 min · 28 mi
Mountain Loop Trail	1.4	118 ft	Easy	1 h 09 min · 33 mi
Interconnected Trail System 84	2.5	74 ft	Easy	1 h 09 min · 34 mi
Walden Parke Trail	1.7	47 ft	Easy	53 min · 29 mi
Fern Rock Trail	1.4	77 ft	Easy	44 min · 24 mi

Quick picks near Ellsworth

Easy and short: Becton Trail — 1.8 mi, rated easy, 10 mi from town
Biggest climb: Tunk Maintain Ridge Loop — 955 ft over 3.8 mi, 19 mi from town

What the trails reach

Summits: Caribou Loop to Caribou Mountain; Tunk Maintain Ridge Loop to Tunk Mountain; Bald Bluff Trail to Bald Bluff Mountain; Mead Mtn Trail to Mead Mountain

Lakes: Caribou Loop to Wizard Pond; Tunk Maintain Ridge Loop to Mud Pond; Partridge Pond Trail to Partridge Pond; Schoodic Bog Trail to Schoodic Bog

Beaches: Black Cliff Trail to Schoodic Beach; Redmans Beach Trail to Black Beach

Trail guides near Ellsworth

Ridge Trail — 1.9 mi, 597 ft climb · 37 mi away

Nearby towns: Bangor (23 mi) · Belfast (29 mi) · Rockland (45 mi) · Augusta (64 mi)

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