Skyline Farm
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The 54-acre Skyline Farm on The Lane in North Yarmouth is a non-profit organization that maintains a sleigh museum and trail network on farmland that dates to the late 18th Century. Skyline’s woods, trails, and fields have been protected since 2002 by a conservation easement held by Royal River Conservation Trust.
The trails at Skyline Farm are open to non-motorized uses year round. Visitors may access the trails from the parking area at the farm and museum complex. A two mile loop passes along the highest hill of the farm’s hayfields before plunging into the woods where it crosses a tributary of Toddy Brook and passes through mixed growth groves of trees. The property sits atop the aquifer that provides drinking water to Yarmouth and North Yarmouth.
In the late 1700s, Thomas Loring settled on the land that became Skyline Farm. In the 1940s the farm was developed as a riding school. The indoor riding area was completed around 1959 and is believed to be the oldest purpose-built arena in the state still standing. The farm’s carriage collection began in the 1970s and grew to number over 300. In 1999, a group of preservation minded residents formed a non-profit organization, pursued an aggressive fundraising campaign, and purchased Skyline Farm in order to protect the land in perpetuity. Today, Skyline is one of the few farms in the town’s village center with its original land, fifty-four acres of fields and woods.
95 The Lane, North Yarmouth
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Skyline Farm
The 54-acre Skyline Farm on The Lane in North Yarmouth is a non-profit organization that maintains a sleigh museum and trail network on farmland that dates to the late 18th Century. Skyline’s woods, trails, and fields have been protected since 2002 by a conservation easement held by Royal River Conservation Trust.
The trails at Skyline Farm are open to non-motorized uses year round. Visitors may access the trails from the parking area at the farm and museum complex. A two mile loop passes along the highest hill of the farm’s hayfields before plunging into the woods where it crosses a tributary of Toddy Brook and passes through mixed growth groves of trees. The property sits atop the aquifer that provides drinking water to Yarmouth and North Yarmouth.
In the late 1700s, Thomas Loring settled on the land that became Skyline Farm. In the 1940s the farm was developed as a riding school. The indoor riding area was completed around 1959 and is believed to be the oldest purpose-built arena in the state still standing. The farm’s carriage collection began in the 1970s and grew to number over 300. In 1999, a group of preservation minded residents formed a non-profit organization, pursued an aggressive fundraising campaign, and purchased Skyline Farm in order to protect the land in perpetuity. Today, Skyline is one of the few farms in the town’s village center with its original land, fifty-four acres of fields and woods.
