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Marginal Way
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Written by GOseacoast Walks
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SCENIC SEACOAST WALKS
Ogunquit, Maine
You won’t find a prettier stretch of Maine coastline with an easier walking trail.
Sure it gets crowded sometimes, but not in the fall, winter and spring. Great
views of the white Ogunquit beach, and for tourists, shopping on both ends.
Name: The Marginal Way
Location: Along the coast from Perkins Cove to Ogunquit Beach.
Resources: Benches only. Donations accepted
Rules: Walk at your own risk. NO scooters, bicycles, roller blades, skate boards
Dogs: Not in spring and summer. On leash from Oct 1 to March 31
Web site: Ogunquit Chamber of Commerce
Hardy hikers often imply that Ogunquit’s Marginal Way is a walk for old ladies.
True, the path that winds along the rocky shore is neatly paved and the treacherous
cliffs are, in places, safely fenced. There are 30 memorial benches on which to
rest and a fake lighthouse at the halfway point. And the path does lead, conveniently,
from the downtown shopping area to the once-quaint fishing village in Perkins
Cove, now an outdoor mall of jewelry, clothing and candle boutiques. And yes,
a lot of white-haired ladies in boldly-printed sweatshirts do make the hike, so
many, in fact, that in summer the scenic walk is wall-to-wall tourists with their
arms full of purchases.
But they go away in the fall and the ocean doesn’t. In fall the air along the
Atlantic is super crisp, the parking is plentiful and free, and dogs are allowed
on the trail from now until spring. If you keep your eyes focused out to sea and
not on the manicured lawns of the hotels, there is no more dramatic sights in
New England.
The trail is just a mile and a quarter long, but there’s at least an added quarter
mile from the beach parking lot, if you start there. Walk the whole loop back
down Shore Road – the trolley only runs in summer – and you’ve hiked nearly three
miles.
I admit to a special fondness for Ogunquit. I quit school as a college sophomore
and ran off to New York to join a rock band. The band failed quickly and I survived
that summer in Ogunquit, working five part-time jobs and spending no time on the
beach. I slept in the abandoned back room of the Betty Doone motel and, in the
cool of the evening, sometimes wandered the Marginal Way by moonlight. As tacky
as Ogunquit can be, the often-painted waves crashing on those rocks are no less
dramatic than when prehistoric Indians camped here. Any scene powerful enough
to ease by college angst is big medicine.
The Marginal Way was designed specifically as a tourist magnet, not a nature
preserve, but so what? It’s gorgeous and exciting, even dangerous in the right
weather. In 1991 a freak storm tore the path to pieces, just to remind us how
Maine’s rocky coast was formed. --- JDR
Photos by J. Dennis Robinson





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