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Pine Point Beach is a four-mile municipal beach located on the northern edge of Saco Bay in Scarborough, Maine, United States. It spans the outlet of the Scarborough River . It covers a total of just over three acres and has 7,000 feet of sandy ocean frontage.
Scarborough is a town in Cumberland County on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Maine. Located about 7 miles (11 km) south of Portland, Scarborough is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The population was 22,135 at the 2020 census, [2] making it the most populous town in Maine. [3]
Scarborough River is a 3.7-mile-long (6.0 km) [1] coastal estuary and river draining through the Scarborough Marsh in Scarborough, Maine. It empties into Saco Bay between Pine Point Beach and Western Beach and marks the bay's northern end. [2] The main tributaries are the Nonesuch River, Dunstan River, and Libby River, as well as smaller brooks ...
The town's Pine Point Beach, Western Beach and Ferry Beach abut the marsh with frontage on Saco Bay. The Eastern Trail, on right-of-way of the former Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad, provides a path for walking, biking, cross-country skiing and bird watching. The Eastern Trail is the southern Maine section of the East Coast Greenway.
Behind Pine Point is the state run wildlife management area for Scarborough Marsh. The marsh is 15% of the state's total tidal marsh area and the largest contiguous marsh in Maine. The state owns and manages a 3,100-acre (13 km 2 ) reserve, of which 2,700 acres (11 km 2 ) is salt marsh, about 200 acres (0.81 km 2 ) is upland habitats, with the ...
Maine State Route 9 runs northward from Dunstan with US 1 towards Portland but leads southeastward out of the community as Pine Point Road, towards Old Orchard Beach. Interstate 95 (the Maine Turnpike) forms the northwestern edge of the CDP, and the York County line is the southwestern border, with the city of Saco directly
Pages in category "Scarborough, Maine" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Pine Point Beach; Prouts Neck, Maine; S. Scarborough Connector;
Although there were once many hotels on Prouts Neck, [2] including the Jocelyn, and most notably the Checkley, the only one that remains is the venerable Black Point Inn, [3] which is open on a seasonal basis. Famous families that have summered in Prouts Neck for generations include members of the Rockefeller family and descendants of Thomas M ...