WITCH HOLE POND TRAIL

Old maps show different legs of the old Witch Hole Pond Trail, with the main trail doing a circle around Witch Hole Pond.  If you were to begin at Duck Brook Bridge on the Duck Brook Road and cross the bridge, than go right and follow the carriage road until you reach the pond, right there hidden behind a few pine tree's is a section of the old trail, it follows the edge of the pond for a ways before ending at a swampy area behind the pond.

WITCH HOLE POND TRAIL - Acadia National Park

Some sections of that old trail no doubt are today under water, and old articles state that  the bulk of the Witch Hole Pond Trail were destroyed when the carriage road was built over the trail.  When you compare old trail maps to the current carriage roads in that area it becomes clear that indeed was the case, but just like a section of that old path still exists today along the back side of the lake, another leg of the Witch Hole Pond Trail also still exists today, running from an area by a beaver pond on the carriage road through the woods to where it comes out on the Breakneck Road.  I believe there was once two legs of the Witch Hole Pond Trail that ran over to the Breakneck Road.

This section of old trail is not easy to locate from the carriage road, but fairly easy to locate from the Breakneck Road end.  On that end of the trail it forms a Y and the trail itself is well worn and in good shape.  And if you think this might be some over used deer trail, you soon realize this was once an official trail once you come to a built up section of trail lined along the side with rocks.  I had found this section of trail many years ago and completely forgot about it until this past week when we once

So today we returned back to the Witch Hole Pond Trail and here are the GPS numbers;

From Breakneck Road end;
N 44 23.633
W 068 15.257

From Carriage Road end of trail;
N 44 23.676
W 068 15.087

WITCH HOLE POND - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

The map below is one I did for the Witch Hole Marsh Trail, but I have added a section of the Witch Hole Pond Trail that is still there today and well worn.  A wetland area has swallowed up much of the trail that would of gone on to connect back to the carriage road.  In the day this trail was in use the carriage road was not there, so a long stretch of the carriage road would of been the Witch Hole Pond trail.

WITCH HOLE POND - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK