[1][2] It circumnavigates Back Cove, running beside (if done in the clockwise direction) Preble Street Extension, Baxter Boulevard and Interstate 295.

[3] The trail's trailhead is beside the parking lot on Preble Street Extension, adjacent to Back Cove Park.

[4] Beneath Tukey's Bridge, at the mouth of Back Cove, the trail connects to the Bayside and Eastern Promenade Trails.

[3][4] Portland's former mayor James Phinney Baxter envisioned the trail.

It was completed in 1917,[1] four years before Baxter's death.