25 Ways to Celebrate
25 Years of the Orono Land Trust
1. Attend one of the paddle day trips
2. Volunteer on a trail clean-up day to help keep the trails enjoyable for others
3. Look for the PineApple Tree on the Colburn Property Trails
4. Find the holes made by pileated woodpeckers in trees beside the Stillwater River Trail
5. Walk the Colburn Property trails and find the Porcupine Tree
6. Walk the Gould Landing Trail along Pushaw Lake & find the giant boulder placed there many years ago by receding glaciers
7. Walk the trails connecting Sklar Park, Rampe and Colburn Properties
8. Look for beaver houses along the trails
9. Explore the Veazie properties: McPhetres, Manter, and Buck Hill
10. Join in Orono-wide Stream Clean Up in May
11. Snowshoe on a marked trail to the top of Bangor Hill (park at the Taylor Road lot by the dump)
12. Look for traces of the old railroad along the Stillwater River trail. Then check out Orono history books in the library to see what the railroad looked like.
13. Try geocaching
14. Explore a new land trust property each month—there are 13 in all
15. Invite a friend to join Orono Land Trust
16. Bring a bird book along and keep track of the birds you see along the trails
17. Take pictures along the trails and see how they change throughout the seasons
18. Nordic ski groomed trails at Newman Hill and Marsh Island
19. Visit another world by venturing out on the Orono Bog Boardwalk (opens May1)
20. Put in a canoe at Brownie’s Park along the Stillwater Trail or kayak at Gould’s Landing
21. Go on a guided nature walk along the Orono Bog Boardwalk
22. Walk the Colburn Property (this is the original OLT property) and find the Big Old Tree
23. Look for Lady Slippers at the Forest Hill trail entrance to the Colburn Property
24. Watch helicopters fall from the maple trees in the Marsh Island Natural Area
25. Go bird watching in Peter’s Field