Acadia National Park lies along Maine’s midwest coast, just south of Bar Harbor. It is the only national park in the northeast, but with a park this amazing, who needs another? Acadia National Park spans a huge portion of Mount Desert Island (pronounced like dessert), part of the Schoodic peninsula (the only part attached to […]
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Your Guide to Bar Harbor Ice Cream and Fudge
Bar Harbor is the gateway to Acadia National Park and it offers no shortage of calories to fuel you up for your hiking. Like any good resort town, quaint homemade ice cream shops and country stores peddling fudge-y goodness abound. Here’s a quick guide to the best and the less best. (Spoiler alert: they’re all […]
Crossing the Bar Harbor Land Bridge to Bar Island
The small community of Bar Harbor is full of things you’d expect from a Maine resort town: lobster restaurants, ice cream, homemade fudge, souvenir shops, and tourists. But there is one unique and magical thing you can’t find anywhere else: the land bridge to Bar Island. The land bridge linking Bar Harbor to Bar Island […]
Bar Harbor, Maine: Welcome to Vacationland
I didn’t know that Maine’s unofficial nickname was “Vacationland” until Brian and I visited Bar Harbor this summer. Ostensibly, it refers to all of Maine, but the slogan felt especially apt for Bar Harbor, a compact little town full of shops, restaurants, ice cream parlors, and of course, tons of milling tourists! This adorable resort […]