Arts on the Hill: MoJO Jazz

Beech Hill Preserve 316 Beech Hill Rd, Rockport, ME, United States

Our second Arts on the Hill summer concert features MoJO Jazz! Watch the ensemble bring extraordinary modern and traditional big band music to life atop Beech Hill! This free outdoor concert kicks off at 6:00PM Monday, July 8th on top of Beech Hill! Bring your friends, family, and a picnic, but please leave dogs at […]

Wednesday Waldo Walk: Marsh Meadow

Do you love Waldo County? Are you interested in discoveringnew places to explore? Do you want to learn more about Coastal Mountains LandTrust's work to conserve this beautiful area?Join us for our new hiking series: Wednesday Waldo Walks!On the second Wednesday of each month, Waldo County Conservation Initiativecommittee member Bindy Pendleton will lead a walk […]

Happy Wanderers: Head of Tide, Belfast

Head Of Tide Nature Preserve Belfast, ME, United States

Join us for a guided group hike along the trails of Head ofTide and Stover Preserves in Belfast! Hikers will have the opportunity to enjoythe outdoor installation by artists Peter Walls and Allegra Kuhns! Thesebeautiful murals are adorning the trails as part of our ongoing collaborationwith Waterfall Arts.Happy Wanderers is our monthly hiking group hosted […]

Art Gone Wild: Adorning the Trails of Stover Preserve in Belfast with Peter Walls & Allegra Kuhns

Stover Preserve

Artists Peter Walls and Allegra Kuhn generously offered toreinstall the “jewelry for the trees” at Stover Preserve in Belfast from their 2023 Art Gond Wild installationas a fundraiser for future Art Gone Wild Residencies! “Creating this “jewelry” for the trees focuses publicattention on how special these preserved lands, flora, and fauna are.  Wehope that the […]

Arts on the Hill: Camden Shakespeare Festival

316 Beech Hill Rd Rockport, ME, United States

Arts on the Hill presents the Camden Shakespeare Festival's performance of Comedy of Errors! Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare’s hilarious farce about two sets of twins who end up in the same town, each unaware of the others. Mistakes, fakes, wonders, and blunders – no play contains more comedy, or more errors. This free outdoor […]

Art Gone WILD: Fields (Immersive Floral Installation)

Art Gone WILD continues with an interactive, immersive artinstallation from Bo Dennis of Dandy Ram Farm. “Fields” is a floralinstallation experience hosted at Head of Tide and Stover Preserves in Belfastfrom Friday, July 19th through Sunday, July 21st. An openhouse will be held at Head of Tide Preserve on Friday, July 19thfrom 5p.m.-7p.m. with Waterfall […]

Blueberry Free Pick

316 Beech Hill Rd. Rockport, ME

Coastal Mountain Land Trust's annual free pick days at the blueberry fields of Beech Hill will be held from Sunday, July 21st through Saturday, July 27th! Sign up here.For the quickest route to the berry fields, park at 316 Beech Hill Rd. in Rockport. The field will be on your right, about five minutes walking distance […]

Insect Bonanza

Rescheduled to Sunday, July 21st at 10a.m.! Join naturalist Roger Rittmaster and members of the Maine Entomological Society for Insect Bonanza, a guided hike exploring a wide array of bug-friendly habitats along the Ragged Mountain trails. This is an especially exciting time in the insect world, as we approach peak butterfly diversity in Midcoast Maine!The hike will […]

CANCELLED Blueberry Free Pick: Evening Pick

This event has been cancelled due to rain.The sweetest time of year is here: blueberry free pick days at Beech Hill Preserve! Free picks will take place every day from Sunday, July 21st through Saturday, July 27th. On Thursday, July 25th we will host a special evening picking session from 5p.m.-7p.m.Sign up here!Bring your buckets, […]

Blueberry Free Pick

316 Beech Hill Rd. Rockport, ME

Coastal Mountain Land Trust's annual free pick days at the blueberry fields of Beech Hill will be held from Sunday, July 21st through Saturday, July 27th! Sign up here.For the quickest route to the berry fields, park at 316 Beech Hill Rd. in Rockport. The field will be on your right, about five minutes walking distance […]

Arts on the Hill: Burnurwurbskek Singers

Beech Hill Preserve 316 Beech Hill Rd, Rockport, ME, United States

Coastal Mountains Land Trust’s Arts on the Hill program brings the Burnurwurbskek Singers to Beech Hill Preserve on Sunday, July 28 at 1:00 p.m. as part of this popular and free summer concert series. Comprised of men representing many of Maine’s Wabanaki people (including the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mic Mac tribes), the members of […]

Volunteer Blueberry Raking for Local Food Pantries

Now that ourweek of community free picks have wrapped up, we’re looking for some helpraking through the remaining berries in the fields at Beech Hill! Raked berrieswill be winnowed and packed in our Blueberry Barn, which is located in the mainparking lot of the preserve. Berries will then be frozen and distributed to anumber of […]