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126 ❯❯ New England Area by Area

The Best of the Rest

Lubec and Campobello
Deer Isle and Stonington
1 6
Island
MAP Q3
Artists and fishermen seem to flock MAP R2 • West Quoddy Head Light
together in Maine. The Haystack Visitor Center: 973 S Lubec Rd • 207
Mountain School of Crafts made 733 2180 • Open late May–mid-Oct:
Deer Isle famous years ago, while daily • www.westquoddy.com
the lobster boats still tend to out- America’s first sunrise strikes the
number pleasure craft in the striking barber-pole lighthouse at West
harbor at Stonington. Quoddy Head in Lubec. A bridge
leads to Campobello Island, where
Boothbay Harbor
2 Franklin Roosevelt summered.
MAP P4
Bangor
Regarded by many as the boating 7
capital of midcoast Maine, this pic- MAP Q2
turesque harbor is a great spot to Fine mansions dot this Penobscot
go on a whale-watching trip, kayak River town, once the world’s timber
excursion, or pleasure cruise. capital and today a jumping-off point
to the northern wilderness.
Monhegan Island
3 Baxter State Park
MAP Q4
Birders and hikers flock to the rocky 8
MAP Y5 • 64 Balsam Dr,
cliffs of this offshore art colony every Millinocket (office) • 207 723 5140
summer. After the summer tourists • Closed Sat–Sun mid-Oct–late May
leave, the lobster fishermen return • www.baxterstateparkauthority.com
for the profitable winter season. Test your mettle by sca ling 5,267-ft
(1,605-m) Mount Katahdin, set in 327
Castine and Blue Hill
4 sq miles (848 sq km) of pristine forest.
MAP Q3, R3
Rangeley Lake Region
A drive down a single peninsula 9
takes you to two great towns: art- MAP N2
minded Blue Hill, with its excellent Spruce- and hemlock-clad peaks
pottery studios; and Castine, with its rise with robust grace from a plateau
rich Colonial heritage and the Maine splashed with 112 lakes and ponds –
Maritime Academy. an outdoors enthusiast’s paradise.
Old Orchard Beach
Allagash Wilderness
5 0
MAP N5
MAP Y4–5 • Maine Bureau of
This sandy beach, with its gentle surf, Parks & Lands: 106 Hogan Rd, Bangor
is the perfect place for swimming. • 207 941 4014
Kids love the amusement park rides, Forever wild, the Allagash is a
the waterslide, and the pier with legendary system of rivers and lakes
its fast food vendors and where the trout (and the mosquitoes)
games of skill. are bigger than anywhere else.
Old Orchard Beach

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