{"id":1005,"date":"2011-04-16T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2011-04-16T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:06:11","slug":"multi-use-recreation-trails-for-spring-days-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Use Recreation Trails For Spring Days in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are longing to get out in the fresh Maine air after this quite challenging winter, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitmaine.com\">Office of Maine Tourism<\/a> has tipped us on some great multi-use recreation trails that are popular on spring days.<\/p>\n<p>The 6.5 mile-paved <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.krrt.org\/\"><strong>Kennebec River Rail Trail<\/strong><\/a> is ideal for walkers, runners, bicyclists, roller bladers and leashed dogs. Following the river from Augusta to Gardiner, the Kennebec Rail Trail is mostly flat in appearance, but certainly three-dimensional to visitors as a wonderful outdoor recreational opportunity!<\/p>\n<p>The one-and-a-half mile <strong>Auburn\/Lewiston Riverwalk<\/strong> connects Auburn&#8217;s West Pitch Park, beside the Androscoggin River&#8217;s Great Falls, with Lewiston&#8217;s Simard-Payne Memorial Park.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Presque Isle Bike Path<\/strong> in Arrostook County is a 4.5 mile former rail bed that goes through the city with views of the Presque Isle Stream.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> Have a Maine travel tip that is easy on the wallet? <a href=\"mailto:feedback@visitingnewengland.com\">Contact us at The Thrifty New England Traveler!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are longing to get out in the fresh Maine air after this quite challenging winter, the Office of Maine Tourism has tipped us on some great multi-use recreation trails that are popular on spring days. The 6.5 mile-paved Kennebec River Rail Trail is ideal for walkers, runners, bicyclists, roller bladers and leashed dogs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[282,283,224,245,273,1],"tags":[781,779,777,190,782,780,778],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}