"Three miles of moderate hiking lead through pleasant woodlands and along the salt marshes, tidal rivers, and basins of the secretive Ovens Mouth.

Ovens Mouth is home to a variety of wildlife, including bald eagles, osprey, ducks, wading birds, otters, and harbor seals. Once almost entirely cleared for farm and pasture land, a large portion of the forest canopy on the heavily wooded property is now composed of eastern white pine. Five miles of trails wend through Ovens Mouth Preserve, tracing a route around the shoreline of both peninsulas and crisscrossing the interior, allowing for extensive exploration of its woodlands, coves, and salt marshes. From the information kiosk at the western trailhead, take the wide trail easily uphill through the oak-and-pine forest, following white and blue blazes."

--Carey Michael Kish, AMC's Best Day Hikes Along the Maine Coast (Appalachian Mountain Club Books).

"The Eastern Shore Loop follows the shore of Cross River— what appears to be a lake surrounded by evergreens but is actually a bay. The trail reaches a rocky point where the river flows out into this bay. The river’s narrow channel between rock walls is the Ovens Mouth.

The tidal current carries water in or out of the bay at an astonishing speed. A bridge over an inlet connects the Ovens Mouth East and West Trails. The return hike on the Eastern Loop follows along the edge of a marsh at the head of the inlet."

--Greg Westrich, Best Easy Day Hikes Camden (Falcon Guides).