Driving Directions
June 2021 Update: The Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area is open to the public.
Before making your trip to the Conservation Area, please consider checking the status of our parking lot at bmmparking.com. Note that once the lot is full, we turn additional vehicles away and letting in cars that arrive after others have left is up to the discretion of our staff.
Bates College Coastal Center at Shortridge
Directions to The Bates College Coastal Center at Shortridge (from Bates College)
Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area
- From Lewiston, take Route 196 towards Topsham. Continue past the Topsham Fair Mall to Bath via U.S. Route 1.
- As you approach Bath, exit Route 1 on Route 209 south (High Street) towards Phippsburg/Small Point/Sebasco/Popham Beach. (It is the second Bath exit.) Turn right on High Street at the end of the ramp.
- Follow Route 209 South for 11.6 miles. (The road will soon curve left as you cross a causeway, leaving Bath and beginning to drive down the Phippsburg peninsula.) Where Route 209 turns sharply left to Popham Beach, continue straight ahead onto Route 216 for 0.4 mile.
- You will see NO PARKING signs on both sides of the road as you approach the entrance to Morse Mountain. Turn left on Morse Mountain Road.
- Drive about 350 feet to the entrance of the parking lot on the left. In the summer, there is a gatekeeper at this lot. When the lot is full, no more vehicles are permitted to enter until parked vehicles leave. Vehicles may not park on Morse Mountain Road or on Route 216.
- A two-mile hike leads through woodlands, salt marshes, up 180-foot Morse Mountain to an overlook, and on to Seawall Beach.