BOSTON GLOBE • July 29, 2021
Cobscook Shores, a scenic treasure trove of 14 separate parcels acquired and managed by the Butler Conservation Fund, is designed especially for bikers, hikers, and paddlers. So, expect to leave your car at the visitor center at Old Farm Point each day, or at smaller lots close to a boat-launch site, and use bike, kayak, canoe, or legs to enter the dramatic landscape of Cobscook Bay and its spectacular estuaries, Whiting Bay, Straight Bay, South Bay, and Johnson Bay. There are endless routes to explore, past woodlands, meadows and orchards, leading to the cliffs and rocky beaches of one of the most “complicated shorelines in the world,” a geologist observed in 1886.