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FBC Trail Explorer Passport – 2025

April 17, 2025
News Preserve Activities Self Guided Hikes

We’re challenging YOU to explore FBC’s trails this summer — for a chance to win a prize!

Starting Friday, May 16th, 2025, there will be passport signs along the trail at six FBC preserves. Each sign features a different organism that can be found on the corresponding preserve. Hike out and find the signs, record them on your passport and submit your answers to FBC to be entered into a prize drawing! Participants have until Sunday, August 10th, to complete the challenge.

There are six passport signs in total, hike out and find at least 4 to be entered to win the prize. Hike out and find all six for an additional entry into the drawing! The prize this year is a FBC Swag Bag, filled with FBC merch and $60 worth of gift cards to Ellsworth businesses, like Fogtown Brewing Co., Flexit Cafe, and Morton’s Moo Homemade Ice Cream.

 

How to Participate: 

  1. Starting May 16th The passport signs will be out on the trail. You can either download your passport here to print out, or record your hikes on your phone and submit your answers online using the form below.
  2. Get hiking! There are passport signs along six preserves for you to visit. Hike at four highlighted preserves of your choosing to complete the passport and be entered to win the FBC swag bag prize. Hike all six highlighted preserves and receive an additional entry into the drawing!
  3. Submit your finished Passport for prize entry by Sunday, August 10th. Passports can be mailed to FBC, or answers can be submitted online using the form below.  FBC will then draw a winner for the prize bag, which can be picked up at the Tidal Falls office, or shipped to those outside of Hancock County.Mailing Address: P.O. Box 150, Hancock, ME. 04640
  4. Have a question? Email our Outreach Coordinator at jane@frenchmanbay.org. Happy hiking!

 

This year the Trail Explorer Passport challenges you to hike at:

Salt Pond, Hancock, ME.
Corea Heath Preserve, Corea Heath, ME.
Frances B. Wood, Gouldsboro, ME.
Mariaville Falls, Mariaville, ME.
Indian Point, Ellsworth, ME.
Baker Hill, Sullivan, ME.

Download the Challenge form: FBC Trail Explorer Passport 2025

Submit Answers for the 2025 Trail Explorer Passport Below:

For each preserve you hiked, submit your answer for which organism you found on the trail's passport sign. Leave any preserves you did not hike blank. Hike four preserves to complete the passport and receive an entry into the prize drawing. Hike all six for two entries!

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