Location: Downeast and Acadia < Maine < USA
Nearest Airport:
Bangor International at 36
Miles
Car: necessary
Art, music and pottery in Blue Hill; history, museum and Maine Maritime Academy training ship tours in Castine; waterpark and L.L. Bean in Ellsworth; Acadia National Park at Schoodic Point and on Mt. Desert Island (Cadillac Mountain, hiking and horseback riding trails, Sand Beach, scenic drives, Anemone Caves, Thunder Hole; Bar Harbor with whale-watching, seal and puffin cruises; great seafood in numerous restaurants. Toddy Pond offers good fishing for large- and small-mouth bass, brown trout, white and yellow perch. The 2,000-acre lake is also stocked with landlocked salmon and splake (a hybrid of male brook trout and female lake trout).