This conservation property was once part of a productive farm. Today the conservation area features 2,200 feet of undeveloped shoreline on Webber Pond, excellent birding, a silky dogwood wetland, and rare swamp white oaks.
As you hike along the old trolley bed, you can imagine cars rolling by in the early twentieth century with people bound for Waterville or maybe Augusta. As you hike the loop trail, imagine an earlier time over 300 years ago, when the Abenaki Indians hunted and fished along the Kennebec River, in forests and wetlands, and in the waters that are now known as Webber Pond.
The Alewife Amble (1 mile) begins on the east side of the road, by the parking lot. The trail crosses an old trolley line bed, and loops around to the Webber Pond shoreline. The trail comfortably accommodates several hikers walking together. Water access to the shore is available via the public boat landing at the Webber Pond outlet.
On the west side of Webber Pond Road, across from the parking lot, the Virginia Rail Trail (0.2 miles one-way) leads to a cattail marsh with wood duck boxes. There are also many unmarked trails on old woods roads.
Visit the Kennebec Land Trust online for more information or contact:
From ME-201 in Vassalboro (roughly two miles north of the Augusta-Vassalboro line), turn east on the Webber Pond Road and go 0.5 miles past the Webber Pond Public Boat Landing to the Kennebec Land Trust sign (just south of the Natanis Golf Course). The main public access to the Vassalboro Wildlife Habitat is from the 35-acre parcel on the east side of Webber Pond Road, where a large wooden Kennebec Land Trust sign identifies the trailhead.
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