Best Mud Season Trails

The mud is almost inescapable in March and April as spring rains team up with the melting winter snow, but here are a few spots that you can go and keep your feet dry, from your car door through the trail and back.

• The Sebago to the Sea Trail has many different parking areas, and all of the paved sections are great choices for walking when it’s wet out.
  

• Gambo Preserve is accesssed via the well-maintained parking lot at Shaw Park. The loop trail is on the raised historic Cumberland-Oxford Canal Towpath. The towpath was designed to stay dry when it was dug in the 19th century, and it is still doing its job admirably.
  

• Frazier Preserve’s trails are mostly the remnants of an old railbed through wetlands. The trail is very flat, and though you will likely encounter some puddles, the majority of the water runs off the raised trail.