Parks, beaches and places to go around Augusta-Waterville

The park has a basketball court, two pickleball courts with permanent nets, a playground and one of the city outdoor pools.

Outdoors

• basketball court
• Playground
• pickleball courts
• pool
• Restrooms
• Water fountain

182 Northern Ave, Augusta, ME 04330

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Laid out on 34 acres given to the state in 1827 and later shaped by the Olmsted Brothers, this is Maine's earliest documented designed landscape.

Outdoors

• gravel paths
• memorials
• Shade

33 Union St, Augusta, ME 04330

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VFW Post 8835 of Winslow maintains the park, where engraved bricks and granite tributes honor local service members.

Outdoors

• engraved bricks
• granite memorials

Roderick Rd, Winslow, ME 04901

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The blockhouse here is the oldest in the United States, and the park is where the Sebasticook runs into the Kennebec.

Outdoors · Free

• blockhouse
• riverfront
• Picnic area

201 Lithgow St, Winslow, ME 04901

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The park is where Cobbosseecontee Stream meets the Kennebec, with a trailered boat launch, a separate kayak launch, docks, restrooms and showers.

Outdoors

• Boat launch
• Kayak launch
• docks
• slips
• boardwalk
• Restrooms
• Showers
• Parking

Maine Ave, Gardiner, ME 04345

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A 1.75 mile connector trail links this riverfront park to the North Street Recreation Area for walkers, runners and cyclists.

Outdoors

• riverfront walkway
• trail access
• farmers market site

60 Front St, Waterville, ME 04901

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McCall's Park on Eastern Avenue holds one of Augusta's three public outdoor pools.

Outdoors

• pool

Eastern Ave, Augusta, ME 04330

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Summer concerts run here beside the Kennebec, and paddlers use the hand carry launch to take out above the railroad trestle.

Outdoors

• green space
• summer concerts
• hand-carry boat launch

1 Northern Ave, Augusta, ME 04330

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The point is the town's public access to Maranacook Lake, with a park, picnic tables, a boat launch and a swimming area.

Outdoors

• Boat launch
• Picnic area
• beach
• swim area

98 Coady Ln, Winthrop, ME 04364

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The 16.5 acre complex holds the city pool, courts, soccer fields, a boat landing and twelve raised bed gardens rented by the season.

Outdoors

• pool
• basketball courts
• tennis courts
• horseshoe pits
• soccer fields
• Boat launch
• Picnic area
• Picnic shelter
• Grills
• Playground
• community gardens

151 North St, Waterville, ME 04901

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The park juts into Long Pond from the village dam and has public restrooms, with live music on the nearby Village Green in summer.

Outdoors

• Restrooms
• Picnic area
• Fishing
• loon watching

Belgrade Lakes, ME 04918

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The town bought this 30 acre park in 1999, and it has a beach on the northern tip of McGrath Pond plus walking trails and a baseball field.

Outdoors

• beach
• swim area
• Boat launch
• Kayak launch
• walking trails
• baseball field

59 McGrath Pond Rd, Oakland, ME 04963

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This is the city's largest park, with about eight miles of groomed Nordic trails and five miles of singletrack, and ski trail use carries a fee.

Outdoors · Cost varies

• nordic ski trails
• singletrack
• snowmaking
• disc golf
• paddling

300 Quarry Rd, Waterville, ME 04901

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The Common holds a playground, a bandstand, a fountain, memorials, benches and open green space in the middle of the city.

Outdoors

• Playground
• bandstand
• walking paths
• fountain
• memorials
• benches

Dresden Ave, Gardiner, ME 04345

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The park covers nearly 400 acres of forest, streams and waterfalls, and it is carry in carry out with no toilets.

Outdoors · Free

• hiking
• biking
• snowmobiling
• snowshoeing
• cross-country skiing

375 York Town Rd, China, ME 04358

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The arboretum covers 224 acres with about six miles of trails, botanical collections and outdoor art, and admission is free.

Outdoors · Free

• trails
• botanical collections
• outdoor art
• birding
• horseback riding on designated trails

153 Hospital St, Augusta, ME 04330

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This is the northern end of the Kennebec River Rail Trail, which runs south from here through Hallowell and Farmingdale to Gardiner.

Outdoors

• rail trail access
• boat landing
• Parking

Front St, Augusta, ME 04330

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The park holds a skate park, two basketball courts, a playground and one of the three city outdoor pools.

Outdoors

• skate park
• basketball courts
• pool
• Playground

59 Bangor St, Augusta, ME 04330

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The beach at the north end of Messalonskee Lake is about 100 feet of pea gravel with a lawn, picnic tables, grills and a playground.

Outdoors

• pea gravel beach
• lawn
• Picnic area
• Grills
• Playground
• Restrooms
• Parking
• Boat launch

22 Old Belgrade Ave, Oakland, ME 04963

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The 8.7 acre town beach at the north end of Maranacook Lake has a buoyed swim area with a float and a volleyball court.

Outdoors

• buoyed swim area
• float
• volleyball court
• Picnic area

Readfield, ME 04355

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The town beach next to Norcross Point is about 300 feet of sand on Maranacook Lake, with a gazebo and summer restrooms.

Outdoors

• sand beach
• gazebo
• Restrooms
• swim area

117 Bowdoin St, Winthrop, ME 04364

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Litchfield leases this summer swimming area from the State at no charge and maintains it for residents and visitors alike.

Outdoors · Fee

• swimming
• Fishing
• volleyball
• horseshoes
• Picnic area
• Grills
• Playground
• changing cabins
• toilets

320 Whippoorwill Rd, Litchfield, ME 04350

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The launch has parking for trailers plus a separate kayak launch, docks and slips on the Kennebec.

Outdoors

• Boat launch
• Kayak launch
• Parking
• Restrooms
• Showers
• docks
• slips

Maine Ave, Gardiner, ME 04345

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Paddlers coming down the Kennebec take out at this hand carry launch on the west bank before the railroad trestle bridge.

Outdoors

• Kayak launch
• hand-carry launch
• Parking

1 Northern Ave, Augusta, ME 04330

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The launch at Norcross Point is the town's public access to Maranacook Lake, next to the swimming area and the picnic tables.

Outdoors

• Boat launch
• Parking
• Picnic area

98 Coady Ln, Winthrop, ME 04364

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The boat landing is inside the North Street Recreation Area, alongside the pool, the courts and the picnic shelters.

Outdoors

• Boat launch
• Parking
• Picnic area

151 North St, Waterville, ME 04901

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The landing is at the north end of Messalonskee Lake, next to the town beach, with picnic tables, grills and ample parking.

Outdoors

• Boat launch
• swim area
• Picnic area
• Grills
• Restrooms
• Parking
• Playground

22 Old Belgrade Ave, Oakland, ME 04963

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The park has both a trailered boat launch and a canoe and kayak launch on the northern tip of McGrath Pond.

Outdoors

• Boat launch
• Kayak launch
• beach
• walking trails

59 McGrath Pond Rd, Oakland, ME 04963

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The 7 Lakes Alliance maintains this short interpretive trail of about eight tenths of a mile in the Belgrade Lakes hills.

Outdoors

• interpretive trail
• views

139 Watson Pond Rd, Rome, ME 04963

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The 75 acre preserve on Wilson Pond has a 1.2 mile shore loop and three vernal pools, and dogs are not allowed.

Outdoors

• shore loop trail
• vernal pools
• undeveloped shoreline

Hardscrabble Rd, Wayne, ME 04284

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The 840 acre area spans Hallowell, Manchester and Farmingdale, with about six miles of connecting loops around a pond that once supplied Hallowell's water.

Outdoors

• trails
• Fishing
• hand-carry launch
• Parking

Jamies Pond Rd, Hallowell, ME 04347

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The network runs to roughly sixty miles across Waterville, Winslow, Benton, Fairfield and Oakland, and several sections are paved and accessible.

Outdoors

• walking
• running
• cycling
• cross-country skiing
• snowshoeing
• Paved path
• Accessible

60 Front St, Waterville, ME 04901

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The paved trail runs about six and a half miles from Augusta's Waterfront Park through Hallowell and Farmingdale into Gardiner.

Outdoors

• Paved path
• walking
• cycling
• dog walking
• skating

368 Water St, Augusta, ME 04330

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The loop over Mount Phillip runs about one and four tenths miles and is kept up by the 7 Lakes Alliance.

Outdoors

• loop trail
• views

Rome, ME 04963

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A loop of the 0.7 mile Tower Trail and the 1.3 mile Blueberry Trail reaches a fire tower the town and the Kennebec Land Trust keep open.

Outdoors

• fire tower
• loop trail
• views

Mt Pisgah Rd, Winthrop, ME 04364

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The Round Top loop covers about 3.9 miles with roughly 775 feet of climbing and outlooks over the surrounding lakes and hills.

Outdoors

• loop trail
• views

Watson Pond Rd, Rome, ME 04963

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The Vaughans laid out three miles of trails and nine stone bridges here in the early 1900s, and the Kennebec Land Trust holds an easement on 150 acres.

Outdoors · Free

• stone bridges
• waterfalls
• Dogs allowed
• Parking

Litchfield Rd at Middle St, Hallowell, ME 04347

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The fenced park has separate areas for large and small dogs, with chairs, tables and water on site.

Outdoors

• Off-leash area
• separate large-dog and small-dog areas
• water
• chairs
• tables

10 Canal St, Augusta, ME 04330

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The fenced park has a double gated entrance and parking off Water Street, and community members built and maintain it.

Outdoors

• Off-leash area
• fenced
• double-gated entrance
• Parking

563 Water St, Gardiner, ME 04345

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The library has occupied the Brown family's 1827 house since 1936, when Mrs. Albert Church Brown left it to the town's library association.

Indoors · Free

• Wi-Fi
• computer
• copier
• periodicals

37 Main St, China Village, ME 04926

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The library offers free wireless access, computer help and interlibrary loan, plus a digital catalog and e-books for cardholders.

Indoors · Free

• Wi-Fi
• computer assistance
• interlibrary loan
• e-books

124 Depot Rd, Belgrade, ME 04917

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William Brown gave the town this Richardsonian Romanesque building in honor of his parents, and it joined the National Register in 1975.

Indoors · Free

• historic building
• reading room

53 Railroad St, Clinton, ME 04927

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The library is named for the opera singer Annie Louise Cary, who was born in Wayne, and it owns about 3,600 historic bookplates.

Indoors · Free

• bookplate collection
• reading room

17 Old Winthrop Rd, Wayne, ME 04284

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The granite building was a gift from the Bailey family in 1916, and the Maine architects John Calvin Stevens and his son designed it.

Indoors · Free

• historic building
• reading room

39 Bowdoin St, Winthrop, ME 04364

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The basement Community Archives Room holds the local history and genealogy collection, and the library also serves Randolph, Pittston, Farmingdale and Litchfield.

Indoors · Free

• local history and genealogy collection
• museum and park passes
• digital newspaper archive

152 Water St, Gardiner, ME 04345

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

Built in 1879, this is the oldest purpose built library building in Maine still serving as a library, and it joined the National Register in 1970.

Indoors · Free

• historic building
• reading room

115 2nd St, Hallowell, ME 04347

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Cardholders can reserve museum and park passes up to 30 days ahead, with one pass per person per location each day.

Indoors · Free

• Wi-Fi
• museum and park passes
• library of things
• computers

45 Winthrop St, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The library shares the state Cultural Building with the museum and the archives, a building that has been under renovation since 2020.

Indoors · Free

• state collections
• research

242 State St, Augusta, ME 04333

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

Andrew Carnegie funded the 1915 building and the library lends through interlibrary loan at no charge, with home delivery for patrons who cannot visit.

Indoors · Free

• interlibrary loan
• home delivery
• historic building

18 Church St, Oakland, ME 04963

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The library is on Main Street in Readfield village and offers wireless access to everyone who comes in.

Indoors · Free

• Wi-Fi

1151 Main St, Readfield, ME 04355

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A trust fund from Jane Underwood started the library in 1953, and it now occupies the old Fayette Mills Schoolhouse.

Indoors · Free

• reading room

2006 Main St, Fayette, ME 04349

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The Carnegie Gallery inside the library shows work by local artists alongside permanent displays of historical photographs and maps.

Indoors · Free

• Wi-Fi
• computers
• fax
• notary
• art gallery

73 Elm St, Waterville, ME 04901

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The library is a stop on the Langlais Art Trail, which places work by the Maine sculptor Bernard Langlais at sites around the state.

Indoors · Free

• Wi-Fi
• computers
• public art

136 Halifax St, Winslow, ME 04901

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The complex pairs a six lane twenty five meter pool with zero entry, kiddie, spray and slide pools inside the North Street Recreation Area.

Outdoors

• six-lane 25-meter pool
• zero-entry area
• kiddie pools
• spray pool
• water slides
• snack bar

132 North St, Waterville, ME 04901

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The pool is in Calumet Park alongside the basketball and pickleball courts and the playground.

Outdoors

• outdoor pool

182 Northern Ave, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The city lists this as one of its three public outdoor pools, with Williams Park and Calumet Park holding the others.

Outdoors

• outdoor pool

Eastern Ave, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

This is one of the three outdoor pools the city runs, and the others are in Calumet Park and McCall's Park.

Outdoors

• outdoor pool

59 Bangor St, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

Exhibits here are built for play, among them a pretend restaurant, a bank with a financial literacy program, a grocery store and a Maine treehouse.

Indoors · Fee · Ages 5 to 12

• play restaurant
• pretend bank
• grocery store
• music area
• Maine treehouse

171 Capitol St, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The state closed the interior to tours in 2019 over structural problems, so the grounds and the exterior are what visitors can see.

Outdoors

• grounds
• historic house exterior

33 Arnold Rd, Pittston, ME 04345

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

Admission is free, and the Lunder Collection inside holds more than 500 works of American art from the nineteenth through twenty first centuries.

Indoors · Free

• American and contemporary art
• five wings
• Lunder Collection

5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville, ME 04901

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The museum occupies the Augusta home of the publisher Guy Gannett, and it reopened in September 2026 with new interactive exhibits.

Indoors

• interactive exhibits
• historic house

184 State St, Augusta, ME 04330

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Founded in 1985 and housed in the Michael Klahr Center on the Augusta campus, it preserves the recorded voices of survivors and liberators who settled in Maine.

Indoors

• multimedia installations
• artifacts
• education programs

46 University Dr, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

Founded in 1891, the society holds manuscripts, photographs and ephemera about Kennebec County that are not available in other archives.

Indoors

• manuscripts
• photographs
• research by appointment

107 Winthrop St, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The museum keeps the record of Maine's military history and the state's part in the nation's defense.

Indoors

• military collections

194 Winthrop St, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The museum is scheduled to reopen on October 24, 2026 after a renovation of the state Cultural Building that closed it in 2020.

Indoors

• whale gallery
• state history exhibits
• gathering spaces

230 State St, Augusta, ME 04330

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Built in 1754 by the Kennebec Proprietors, the main house is the oldest surviving wooden fort building in New England and a National Historic Landmark.

Indoors · Fee

• guided tours
• hands-on programs
• historic buildings

16 Cony St, Augusta, ME 04330

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The LaVerdiere Apothecary room recreates a working pharmacy from a drugstore collection the LaVerdiere family gave the historical society in 1976.

Indoors

• period furniture
• apothecary room
• local papers and diaries

62 Silver St, Waterville, ME 04901

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The market runs outdoors at Mill Park from May through October, then moves indoors to the Buker Center on Armory Street for the winter.

Outdoors

• vegetables
• meat
• baked goods
• fruit
• flowers
• honey
• maple syrup

1 Water St, Augusta, ME 04330

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The market sets up at Head of Falls beside the Kennebec and keeps going into late November.

Outdoors

• local produce
• prepared food

60 Front St, Waterville, ME 04901

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The market sets up on the Gardiner Common, a short walk uphill from Water Street and the waterfront.

Outdoors

• local produce

1 US-201, Gardiner, ME 04345

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The muralist Harry Cochrane designed and painted this 1900 building, whose second floor opera house now holds the Theater at Monmouth and the town library.

Indoors

• opera house
• town library
• ceiling murals
• historic building

796 Main St, Monmouth, ME 04259

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

Founded in 1937 as the Augusta Players, this is the oldest continuously operating community theater in Maine, performing in the 1898 City Hall auditorium.

Indoors · Fee

• auditorium
• historic building

1 Winthrop St, Hallowell, ME 04347

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Built in 1864, this is the oldest theater in Maine, and the third floor auditorium stood unused from 1956 until the current restoration.

Indoors

• performance space
• historic building

280 Water St, Gardiner, ME 04345

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The cinema and the Maine International Film Festival both run out of the Schupf Art Center, which also holds galleries and a cafe.

Indoors · Fee

• cinema screens
• galleries
• cafe

93 Main St, Waterville, ME 04901

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The arena opened in 2012 on the site of the Kennebec Ice Arena, which collapsed under snow load in March 2011, and it runs public skating sessions.

Indoors · Fee

• indoor ice rink
• public skating
• hockey leagues

203 Whitten Rd, Hallowell, ME 04347

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The auditorium opened in 1902 and occupies the upper floors of City Hall, with a smaller Studio Theater used for more intimate productions.

Indoors

• auditorium
• studio theater
• historic building

1 Common St, Waterville, ME 04901

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

Eight indoor courts here stay usable through the winter, and nets are provided.

Indoors · Cost varies

• eight indoor courts
• Lights
• nets provided

23 Leighton Rd, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

Two outdoor courts here carry permanent lines and nets, they are free to use, and the park has restrooms and water.

Outdoors · Free

• two outdoor courts
• permanent lines and nets
• Restrooms
• Water fountain

182 Northern Ave, Augusta, ME 04330

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

The complex carries basketball and tennis courts plus horseshoe pits, next to the city pool and the playground.

Outdoors

• basketball courts
• tennis courts
• horseshoe pits

151 North St, Waterville, ME 04901

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026

Four outdoor courts are behind the town hall complex, and they carry lights for evening play.

Outdoors

• four outdoor courts
• Lights
• nets provided

31 Town Hall Ln, Winthrop, ME 04364

Official site · Checked October 1, 2026