Auburn joins network to construct trail to Portland

SUN JOURNAL • May 5, 2026

Auburn City Council voted Monday night to join an effort to create a recreational trail between Lewiston-Auburn and Portland to be built partially along an inactive rail corridor between Auburn and Portland. The Casco Bay Trail is a proposed 72-mile off-road trail loop connecting Portland, Lewiston, Auburn, Brunswick and Freeport. It would includd a section of the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad known as the Berlin subdivision that runs between Danville Junction in Auburn and The Roux Institute in Portland.