Column: Here’s your tour guide for so many hikes and climbs in and around Augusta

MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • July 4, 2021

The Kennebec Land Trust published its first hiking guide in 2014, a bounty of 20 preserves and 36 miles of hiking. I remember wandering about them, guide in hand, exploring some sweet new places: Curtis Homestead in Leeds, Parker Pond in Fayette, Jamies Pond in Hallowell and Small-Burnham Conservation Area in Litchfield. What a difference six years makes. The second edition of the KLT Hiking Guide, published last year, is a work of art of sorts. The full-color booklet contains 40 sturdy, water-resistant pages and is bound together with a key ring so you can remove a page and take it with you on the trail. You can also add future hike pages as they become available, because you just know KLT will add more hikes.