Distance: 1.5 Mile Loop
Difficulty: Easy with a rock scramble
Bauneg Beg Mountain Conservation Area is located at 279 Fox Farm Hill Road in North Berwick, Maine. This is a great family hike in Southern Maine. We were recently staying at Huttopia and wanted a quick morning hike and this was perfect. There is a small parking lot at the trailhead. The trail starts out with some foot bridges, which are always fun to walk on.
A little further up the trail you will see a sign off to your right to North Peak. You can go this way for the loop or you can go straight, we chose straight. The trail continues through the woods following white trail blazes, then up a steady incline for a few hundred feet. You will come to another split in the trail. You can go left to Ginny’s Way or go right to Linny’s Way. We chose to go right.
After a short time you come to another split in the trail where you can go left through Devils Den or right towards North Peak. We went through Devils Den which is a fun little rock scramble.
Once you reach the top of the rock scramble you bear left and head towards the view point. On a clean day you can see Mt. Washington, but the day we visited it was cloudy, but still a pretty view.
You can go straight and head towards another parking lot/road on the other side of the lookout or you can go back down Devils Den, which we chose to do. After going back through Devil’s Den we took the trail to North Peak, This is a pretty trail through the woods. When you get to North Peak there is no view, but plenty of blueberry bushes.
The trail loops back to the start of the trail and then it is a short walk back to the parking lot. The loop we did was only about a mile and half, but you could do more if wished. We really enjoyed this hike, it was pretty and allowed you to get a little workout in. This is a good hike for children who like to climb as Devils Den is fun to climb.
