Eastern Trail Maps

Aperfect tool to plan for summer 2008 - the updated 2nd Edition of the Pocket-Sized Guide to the whole Eastern Trail ! 

A bargain at $10/copy - Click here to order.   Features of this great guide: Pocket size with spiral wire binding for easy on-trail use.  17 newly redrawn maps  Shows historic Eastern Railroad corridor, the proposed Greenway from South Portland to Kittery Maps show optional scenic byways  Maps include two 50-mile loop rides:  Amtrak-Eastern Trail loop trip, Portland to Wells by Amtrak. Bike back 50 miles on Eastern Trail Bike Wells to Saco River on ET. Bike back to Wells along shore. A 50-mile loop ride.

Two important route updates included in the 2nd edition of the Trail Guide are available for download if you have the 1st Edition of the Guide. These are:

• Improved Eastern Trail to Portland Amtrak Spur Trail
• Desfosses Eastern Trail Side Trip in Scarborough

The pocket-sized guide is also available from Nonesuch Book Stores in Mill Creek (So. Portland) and Saco, and at the following bike shops: Back Back, Bicycle Bob's, Cape-Able, Papa Wheelies, Quinn's and Kittery Trading Post.

We'd like to know about your experiences in using the trail. Please use our ET Spot-ME on-line form to report issues, problems, and other trail features that need attention.  Click here to visit this form!

Many good maps of the off-road section of the proposed Eastern Trail can be found in the final Eastern Trail Engineering Feasibility Study: Final Report, published by Wilbur Smith Associates; Terrence J. DeWan & Associates.  Copies of the Engineering Study are available on this web site, though these are large pdf format files.  Click here to see the files that are available.  

The Final Engineering Report for the Scarborough to South Portland Connector for the Eastern Trail is also out (September 2006). Click here to go to the page describing the various sections of the report that are available for downloading and reading.

Below are some other older reference maps (which may be out of date, yet still provide useful or interesting information)

March 2003 - John Andrews and Steve Shapiro have teamed up to create a new map showing the recommended route to or from the Casco Bay Bridge, from or to Amtrak. It will be in the new ET trail guide. Click here to view this map.

March 2003 - Jim Gailey, South Portland City Site Planner, sent his latest image of South Portland's Greenbelt Walkway Trail Map. This map shows portions of the Greenbelt which exist and which are under construction, and also shows where the Greenbelt connects with Scarborough's portion of the Eastern Trail, and with the Portland Trails system - click here to view this map.

Here is an older map of the overall ETA Corridor in picture format (this is a large file, may take time to load)

Another older map of the Overall ETA Corridor, with some trail development sites identified (this is a large PDF file, may take some time to load. If you need the PDF viewer, it can be obtained/downloaded for free here. )

E-mail the webmaster if you have any trouble reading these graphics, or would like to see them in some other format.