Please respect active logging operations?

Many of Maine's trails would not exist without the generiosity of logging companies and other private landowners sharing their land. Maine?s logging industry depends on the winter months when the ground is frozen to conduct much of its operations. Please be safe and respectful when you come across logging operations:

• Always stop at every intersection, you never know when a logging truck will be passing through. Look both ways and listen for oncoming traffic. Logging operations can occur 7 days a week. ?
• Never rely on the rider in front of you to check the intersection, always check for yourself! Logging trucks tend to travel fast, and it only takes a few seconds before a new truck may approach the road. Likewise, don?t wave on the buddy behind you.
• NEVER park in the middle of the road or a trail.
• Plowed roads are not snowmobile trails, although short sections of plowed roads may serve as access routes. Stay on the marked trail portion, ride to the right, and at an appropriate speed. If there is a trail to the side of the road, always ride on the trail. If a logging truck approaches, let them go first.
• Slow down when you see active logging operation signs and always stay on marked trails. ?
• If a trail is closed, please respect the closed trail sign and seek the alternate route. The landowner has every right to close a trail as it is on their land, especially for logging operations. Respect their wishes so they choose to reopen the trail the following season.

• Drive to the right and at an appropriate speed for your experience and the conditions.
• Never drink and ride.
• Stay on marked snowmobile trails (remember ATV trails are not snowmobile trails).
• Stay alert and be aware of other riders, recreators, and wildlife on the trail.
• Pick up any trash.
• Support a local club.
• Remember that modified exhausts are illegal.
• Follow the rules and ride safe.

And please always respect closed trail signs. Check with the local snowmobile club for up-to-date trail information as some trails could be closed for logging operations or other purposes.?

New sign and law for the 2023-2024 snowmobile season:?Off trail riding is prohibited in this area

Operating snowmobile in posted area.?A person may not operate a snowmobile off a snowmobile trail identified by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands as having been funded by the Snowmobile Trail Fund pursuant to section 1893, subsection 3 if the trail is posted as being closed to off-trail snowmobile operation and the operator has not obtained the permission of the applicable landowner or landowner?s representative.

For purposes of this subsection, ?posted? means containing signage that is reasonably likely to come to the attention of a person operating a snowmobile that indicates that off-trail snowmobiling is prohibited and that is placed by the landowner, the landowner?s representative, a local snowmobile club trail master serving as the landowner?s representative, a local snowmobile club representative or an employee of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife or the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.

13106-A., subsection 27 Operation of snowmobile??-?View all of Maine's snowmobile laws