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Back Cove Trail is a 3.6-mile (5.8 km) multi-use trail in Portland, Maine. [1] [2] It circumnavigates Back Cove, running beside (if done in the clockwise direction) Preble Street Extension, Baxter Boulevard and Interstate 295. It is one of the oldest trails in the city. [3]
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad transports passengers on a scenic tour of the Eastern Promenade. The Eastern Promenade (Eastern Prom) is a historic promenade, 68.2-acre (27.6 ha) public park and recreation area in Portland, Maine. Construction of the Promenade began in 1836 and continued periodically until 1934.
Cumberland Avenue (formerly Cumberland Street; [1] colloquially known as Cumberland Ave) is a downtown street in Portland, Maine, United States. Part of Maine State Route 100 , it runs for around 1.57 miles (2.53 km) from Merrill Street, on Munjoy Hill , in the northeast, to Deering Avenue in the southwest.
Back Cove is an estuary basin on the northern side of the downtown district of Portland, Maine.It is almost circular in form and about 1 mile (1.6 km) in diameter. Back Cove Trail, a popular loop trail, runs around the circumference of the cove for 3.6 miles (5.8 km).
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Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County.Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. [4]
The Portland–South Portland, Maine, metropolitan statistical area is a region consisting of three counties in Maine, anchored by the city of Portland and the smaller city of South Portland. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 551,740. [ 2 ]
The Spring Street Historic District encompasses surviving elements of the 19th-century commercial and surviving residential areas of Portland, Maine.Encompassing a portion of the city's Arts District and an eastern portion of its West End, the district has a significant concentration of residential and commercial buildings that survived the city's devastating 1866 fire.