Top 6 Coastal Maine Destinations Far From the Tourist Trail

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The following roundup provides a small glimpse of each destination.

Cape Elizabeth and its nearly empty Crescent Beach State Park is just a 15 minute drive from trendy, busy Portland, Maine’s largest city, which makes this quiet place even more desirable for those who want to have it both ways.

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What You Don’t Know: Inn By the Sea serves as an arm of the Animal Refuge League of cheap jordans free shipping Greater Portland (Maine), and both fosters and facilitates adoptions of rescued dogs one at a time. Guests come to stay a few days, fall in love with the dog of the moment, and take it home. There have been 54 adoptions to cheap jordans for sale date.

Quirky Fact: Inn By the Sea has been attempting to bring back the endangered New England Cottontail Rabbit in its „Rabitat,” an initiative that explains the rabbit paperweight in each guest room and other bunny paraphernalia around the property.

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Maine was a shipbuilding center, and still is, which is why the phenomenal Maine Maritime Museum is located in Bath home to the still in operation immense boat builder, Bath Iron Works. Bath ME is just 20 minutes from cheap yeezys one of the last surviving true Maine Family Resorts, the Sebasco Harbor Resort on the hardly trampled Phippsburg Peninsula, where exploring off the beaten path is a simple joy in and of itself.

What You Know: The Maine Maritime Museum complex, which includes over a dozen buildings, offers a compelling look at how boats were designed, constructed, and launched prior to computers and electronics. Most astounding is the contemporary white sculpture that outlines the dimensions of the Schooner Wyoming, the Cheap jordans largest sailing vessel in the USA, built cheap jordan sneakers right here in 1909. At 50 ft. wide, 40 ft. tall and 329 feet long, built exactly full scale, the artistic interpretation of the Wyoming takes up most of the property with cheap jordans from china a bowsprit that projects out nearly across the street. Don’t miss the guided tour, which takes visitors through the many steps involved in shipbuilding: a grueling process that amazes even the most initially disinterested teen ager.

What You Don’t Know: Unless you have a house or have summered on the Phippsburg Peninsula, you might be unfamiliar with the vast 3 mile soft sand nearly barren Popham Beach State Park, or the Hermit Island Campground on Head Beach, one of the most highly coveted ocean front campgrounds in Maine, with sites that sell out quickly on January 1st when reservations open up.

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What You Don’t cheap jordans china Know: Heading North on Route 1, about 18 miles from Castine, you’ll drive over a striking harp of a bridge spanning the Penobscot River. The Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory, built in 2006, is the „Tallest Public Bridge Observatory in the World.” You can actually take a minute long, 400 ft. elevator ride inside one of the soaring pylons that hold the bridge in place to an enclosed observation platform at the top a very neat o experience.

Photo Op: Dyce Lighthouse, Castine. In private hands now, it’s still a gorgeous sight. A trail behind the property provides great vantage points.

Worth the Drive: It will take a good 6 or more hours to do the Blue Hill Peninsula justice driving its perimeter, over the precarious Deer Isle Bridge to the art/fishing village of Stonington and back to Castine with a few pull offs along the way.

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