Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park preserves a compact but representative stretch of the Maine coast on a narrow peninsula between Casco Bay and the Harraseeket River at Freeport. Its 244 acres include white pine and hemlock forest, a salt marsh estuary, and rocky shoreline, creating a varied landscape valued for hiking, birdwatching, and winter recreation. The peninsula was named for Henry and Rachel Woolfe, the first permanent European settlers here in 1733. In the 20th century the land was part of an organic beef operation owned by Lawrence M.C. Smith and Eleanor Houston Smith, whose 1969 donation helped create the park, opened in 1972.