Brownville's Pleasant River Walk is a nature walk of nealry three miles connecting the Village and the Junction. Starting at the Playground in the Village or a Davis Recreational Field by the Green Bridge in Junction, the River Walk is a three to four foot wide trail, through woods and fields, parallel to the Pleasant River. The nature trail is carefully groomed – quite easy to walk, but not so much as to lose the feel of a walk in the deep woods. Because the River Walk is located on the opposite side of the Pleasant River from Route 11 and its traffic, the sounds of civilization fade away as you make your way along the trail. There are a number of bridges to carry you over the brooks along the way and many benches locacted at carefully chosen scenic spots overlooking the fiver. You are rarely more than thirty feet from the water; indeed in spots it is only five feet away.

There are a number of unique and interesting things to look for on the River Walk. As you start upriver from the Village you see out in the water a number of rock piles where the log boom cables were connected from the rocks to trees on the side of the river to help control the flow and direction of the logs coming downriver during the drives early in the river's history. The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Bridge, built in the late 1800's, is a two-span steel structure supported by huge blocks of granite. The trail leads you under the trestle for a fascinating look at its construction. Across the river is the remaining foundation of E.H. Ladd's sawmill from the 1930's.

There are many spots along the trail where Mother Nature is evident – trees cut down by beaver, an amazing variety of trees and flowers to study or just enjoy and a very visible picture of the subtle but constant way a riverbed changes from season to season and year to year. A group of students and Boy Scouts have placed identification on many of the trees, letting you know their names, both common and scientific and what the particular species could be used for. One of the most intersting sights along the way is where beaver have dammed up a brook which runs into the river, creating a small gently flowing pond. There is a small side trail which lets you see the beaver's handiwork right next to the river, then backtracks about one hundred fee to the main trail. In just a few feet you cross over this nature-made pond on one of the number of hand-made wooden bridges. Along the walk there are many such sights to discover and enjoy.

The Pleasant River Walk was built and is maintained by The Friends of the River Walk, a group of dedicated community volunteers, with the enthusiastic cooperation and support of the landowners along the trail.

The Friends of the River Walk are proud of the Pleasant River Walk and encourage everyone to use it with the care and respect it has earned.

Please contact us for more info!
Bob Hamlin, President
207.965.2311
kmfrench@prexar.com

Approximate Distances (One Way)

Location	Distance from Village	Distance from Junction
Split Rock Bench	0.5 miles	2.7 miles
Pine Woods Bench	1.8 miles	1.4 miles
Oak Grove Bench	1.9 miles	1.3 miles
South Outlook Bench	2.3 miles	1 mile
Total distance is approximately 3.2 Miles