Marty Velishka, a volunteer at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center, built the gnome homes that are placed in the woods along the trails at the center. Staff hope the gnome homes will entice children to take to the trails.

This gnome lives happily in her gnome home at Rangeley Lakes Trail Center.

Volunteers built the homes and local schoolchildren made the gnomes that live inside them.

Pink hair adds some colorful flair to this gnome.

Plaid overalls are keeping this gnome warm.

The wooden gnome homes are attached to trees and the gnomes inside are created by local schoolchildren.

Rangeley Lakes Trails Center center hopes the gnome homes will entice children to take to the trails.

One of the gnomes in its home at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center in Rangeley.

Colorful accoutrements can get a gnome noticed along the trails.

Beth Flynn, director of the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center in Rangeley, snowshoes along a trail past a gnome house at the center.