Hi all, I recently visited Cobscook Shores Race Point in Trescott with my handcycle and my trail companion, Pocket.
A solar panel attached to my basket is able to charge my phone for GPS navigation through a day of biking with my 6lb dog Pocket. Here we are as we set out on this trip. Forest Pals!
The entry to the trail is well-signed. The gravel path down to the kiosk is a standard forest road that any hand cycler with pedal assist can manage in both directions.
One interesting part of this trip was just before getting to the Kiosk, where I found some colorful local flavor.
Other examples were handmade signs of “High Water, 2050,” even though the location is greater than 100 feet above sea level; a statement that the “North Trescott Town Wharf is 0.6 miles” away, even though no such wharf exists,m and what does exist is just a cliff down to the water; and a sign saying “Boat for Sale,” even though there was another sign saying “sold” nailed on top of it. Now why would someone go to the bother of making and nailing up the “sold” sign versus just taking the “for sale” sign down?
But how about the biking? After a well-provisioned parking area with bike racks and restrooms, over a mile of trails on standard forest roads provide easy biking.
When I finally got to the lookout point to see the famous Reversing Falls, it was unfortunately very low tide so I couldn’t see or hear much of the spectacular phenomenon, but it was still pretty.
There were many trails to get off of the main forest road but they were better suited for foot traffic. If you look closely at this image of the Maple Canopy Trail, you can see it is too rooty, narrow, and steep for a hand cycle. Ah well.
There were also spots designated as “Foot Traffic Only,” even though visually and by studying the topography on the map it appeared an adaptive trike could manage just fine. I didn’t go into these areas of course - but I sometimes wonder if a new category of allowable access needs to be created across the board. It would expand the routes that folks with disabilities like mine are able to take and doesn’t seem it would damage resources or ruin hiker experiences.
Even with these limitations, overall I’d recommend this site to other hand cyclers. The local flair, views of Reversing Falls, and extended forest roads on the rides in and out (upper portion of this trail map below) provide ample wilderness enjoyment – for example, on this relatively brief excursion I saw a grouse, a fox, and oddly enough a barred owl in midday.
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