Schoodic to Tunk Trail Management Plan

A coalition of state and local organizations is working to enhance and expand the current network of hiking trails in the backwoods area that includes parts of Franklin, Cherryfield, Township 9 and Township 10. Special features of this region include Schoodic Mountain, Black Mountain, Tunk Mountain, Donnell Pond, Tunk Lake and Spring River Lake. More than 24,000 acres have been protected through Maine Public Reserve Lands and area land trusts. Improving the hiking and paddling trail network will promote healthy, outdoor recreation and provide a new, sustainable resource for local economic development.

Photographs

• Photographs along the Blackwoods Scenic Byway
• Photographs along the Down East Sunrise Trail

Plans

• Blackwoods Scenic Byway
• Town of Cherryfield - Comprehensive Plan
• Schoodic National Scenic Byway

Funding Propsoals

2009

• Blackwoods Byway Trail Head and Planning Proposals
• Quimby Family Foundation 2009 Blackwoods Trails Concept Letter

2008

• Quimby Family Foundation 2008 Proposal (not funded) (2 MB PDF)

Maps and Trips (Select to enlarge)

• Bureau of Parks and Lands Trails Map - Donnell Pond Unit (1 MB PDF)
• LURC Zoning Maps for Hancock County

Hikes	Paddles

Data

• Township 9 Parcels Shapefile (2001)
• Township 10 Parcels Shapefile (2001)
• (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Links

• Acadia All American Road
• Blackwoods Scenic Byway
• Bureau of Parks and Lands
  • Downeast Region General Management Plan
• Department of Conservation
• Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
• Down East Explorer - Regional Geo-tourism Website
• Down East Sunrise Trail
• Frenchman Bay Conservancy
• Friends of Taunton Bay
• Downeast Salmon Federation and Friends of Tunk
• Hancock County Planning Commission
• Land for Maine's Future
• Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC)
• Quimby Family Foundation
• Schoodic National Scenic Byway
• The Nature Conservancy - Maine
• Washington County Council of Governments (WCCOG)

For more information, please contact:

Jim Fisher, Senior Planner
Hancock County Planning Commission
395 State Street
Ellsworth, ME 04605
(207) 667-7131 / (207) 667-2099 (fax)
jfisher@hcpcme.org