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Outdoors in Eustis

Few parks or trails are on the map in Eustis

4% of Eustis’ land is conserved, about 900 acres. 47 miles of mapped trail cross Eustis, 1.2 per square mile of land. 46% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Conserved land
4%
900 acres · of 39.1 sq mi of land
Trails
47 mi
1.2 per sq mi of land
Park land
908 ac
2,005 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
46%
of residents within ½ mile
Highest peak
1,821 ft
Reed Hill
Lakes & rivers
8
1 boat launch
The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Pick a walk

Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Blanchard Park

Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot

Bigelow Preserve

Nature preserve
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects it

900 conserved acres

4% of Eustis’ land. Water is left out: Eustis has 39.1 square miles of land and 2.3 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Eustis’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

State parks1 ac
Not recorded899 ac
Local Resource Management Area · 899 acLocal Other or Unknown · 1 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. Public access isn’t recorded for 2 of 3 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Eustis Town Forest (Sw)
Local Resource Management Area
Not recorded453Unknown
Eustis Town Forest (Nw)
Local Resource Management Area
Not recorded446Unknown
Bigelow Preserve
Local Other or Unknown
State parks1Closed
Things to do

5 places to go in Eustis

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Campgrounds in Eustis
Cathedral Pines Campground
Directions

Plus 1 campground without a name on the map.

Trails & water

8 named trails and 8 lakes & rivers

Named trails
Open to bikes · 8.1 miHorses · 8.1 miUnpaved · 0.9 mi
ITS 898.1 mi
Snowmobile Rangeley Eustis Connector5.7 mi
Snowmobile Flagstaff Lake access trail3.4 mi
Snowmobile ITS 115 Connector2.4 mi
Snowmobile Tim Pond Reroute trail2.3 mi
Snowmobile Eustis Connector2.3 mi
Snowmobile ITS 86 / ITS 891.9 mi
Snowmobile Bigelow Range Connector0.1 mi
Lakes & rivers tap for directions
Biking & sports

0.0 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Courts & fields
2Baseball
1Tennis
1Basketball
1Soccer

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

History along the way

1 place on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Ora Blanchard HouseBuilding · listed 1980
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Eustis: May, August and September

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.110.311.813.414.815.615.314.112.510.99.58.8
High (°F)222534476170757466524028
Rain (in)2.82.42.83.33.74.84.34.13.54.63.43.7

February is the driest month (2.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 75 °F). 4.8 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Eustis →

Next door

Eustis and its neighbors

Eustis has the most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Eustis— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Coplin plantation— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Eustis

Are dogs allowed on Eustis’ trails?

Blanchard Park and Bigelow Preserve don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Eustis?

3,013 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Eustis or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 908 of them inside the town line.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Eustis neighbors.

Town Square →
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Sources

Where this page comes from

Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →