Park Size: 87 Acres | Established: 1989
Recreational Activities: Birdwatching (warblers, hermit thrushes, bald eagles, common terns, spotted sandpipers), Hiking (trails), Picnicking, Walking, Wildlife Watching
Park Trails:
Shackford Head State Park Trail
- Fee Charged
- Activities: Hiking, Walking
- Length: 3.2 miles, Network
- Difficulty: Easy, Moderate, Advanced
- Location: Eastport
- Surface: Dirt/Forest Floor, Gravel/Crushed Stone, Rock/Ledge, Boardwalk/Bog Bridging
- Pets: Permitted
Season: Open all year; 9:00 a.m. to sunset daily unless otherwise posted at the gate. Fee Charged. - cash or check only, no credit cards accepted.
Directions: Take Route 1 to Route 190 in Perry. Travel 7 miles, passing the Passamaquoddy Indian Reservation and a causeway (part of an unfinished project designed to be the world's largest tidal dam project, when built in the 1930s). Approaching the city of Eastport, the road bends to the left by a gas station. Take a hard right-hand turn onto Deep Cove Road, and travel 0.8 miles to the entrance of Shackford Head State Park (a gravel drive on your left just before the campus of the Maine State Marine Technology School (known locally as the "boat school"). The main trailhead is just off the circular gravel drive to the left of the large brown sign beyond the interpretive panels.
For More Information:
Shackford Head State Park c/o Cobscook Bay State Park
40 South Edmunds Road, Edmunds Township, ME 04628
(207) 726-4412
Details about this park’s fees, rules and regulations, including up-to-date information about recreational activities is available on the State’s website.
