Nearest airport:
Portland, ME at 65 Miles
Nearest beach:
beach at 2.0 Miles
Car:
necessary
Five Islands is a working lobstering/fishing village on the island of Georgetown, ME 04548. From Route 1 in Bath, ME, follow Rte 127 S. for 13 miles across two bridges to the very end. Drive time from Boston is about 3 hours (tell the kids to look for the green stone turtle on the left after crossing the second bridge and your almost here!). Georgetown is a community of 500 in the winter which expands to 4,000 during the summer. Managed by an annual town meeting in June, the community has good services. The Fire Department is volunteer and provides first rate ambulance services. The regional hospital is in Brunswick about 15 miles away. Other major employers are the Naval Air Station in Brunswick (set to close in 2012) & the Bath Iron Works which builds destroyers. Georgetown traces back to the 1600s. Bath was the 4th biggest US port in 1850 due to shipping ice to China (enough survived after a three month voyage to make a fortune). See this history at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath.