Low tide in Great Salt Bay is 2 hours later than it is in Newcastle. View a tide table here.
Great Salt Bay
photo: Team Teebow
The Salt Bay Heritage Trail is a beautiful, well-maintained Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust waterfront trail just a short distance from downtown Damariscotta. You'll be afforded excellent views of Salt Bay, where ospreys, cormorants, loons, and bald eagles are often sighted. The trail itself offers quite a wide variety of terrain (marsh to forest) but stays relatively flat.
The main trailhead for the Heritage Trail is located on the Mills Road (Rt. 215) in Newcastle, along the shore of the Great Salt Bay, just opposite Lincoln County Publishing north of Louis Doe’s and Route 1 by a few hundred yards. Please park in the Lincoln County Publishing lot close to Mills Road at the far end away from their office, and please do not block any of their vehicles!
*NOTE: Although it's closer to the cache, parking along Route 1 is prohibited, the no parking signs are very faded, but a ticket could still result, and it can be dangerous due to the high traffic volume. Plus you'll miss the beauty of the trail. Figure on one hour to an hour thirty minutes round trip from the trailhead.*
Enjoy and au revoir!
--IntotheWoods 
