WHB3 wrote:For a few years now, my wife and I have had the desire to travel to Maine (and other nearby states of the NE). Wife is already talking about going back next year. Spent a few hours in downtown Bar Harbor as well, and walked across the Land Bridge.Īte lots of great lobster rolls/meals- check out Thurston's by Bar Harbor also a bunch of dive Lobster joints north of Bar Harbor by where we stayed Ībsolutely beautiful state (but, my goodness, the bugs up North were horrific if you have sweet blood!) We went to Acadia for 3 days- did Jordan's Pond, Cadillac Mountain, Wonderland Trails- 6 year old walked all of them 4 year old had to be carried a bit. Also a really cool brewery there that is well known (can't remember what it is called off the top of my head) that is a must-stop for beer aficionados. Wife spent $277 on back to school lunch paraphernalia at the LL Bean Outlet, so they got their tithe from us. Stopped by the LL Bean factory on the way up- a REALLY cool little town there (Freeport I think?). Stopped by Portland for a few hours- little kids museum was cute also a very nice oyster/seafood place. We then drove up and stayed about 60 miles north of Acadia in a town called Harrington- also via Airbnb bugs were KILLER! We each have 30+ mosquito bites- the sprays did very little. Had lots of lobster rolls, ate at Mabel's (Bush 41st's favorite restaurant), awesome ice cream places. Stayed in a nice airbnb 2 miles from downtown Kennebunkport (around $160/night). Ogunquit was nice use Uber to get around the town after parking your car and doing the nature walk- easier and cheaper than the trolley. Literally just drove back from our Maine trip.įirst 4 nights stayed in Kennebunkport went on a 2-3 hour lobster cruise, walked around town, went to Ogunquit and some nature walks. We had a place right across from our motel and it was so, so good and BYOB too. Go to the little lobster pounds on the outskirts as its so much cheaper. If you like lobster or lobstah as they call it. With all the travel 2 nights just wasn't enough, especially Bar Harbor. If we did it again, we would have added an extra night at each location, except maybe Burlington. It was such a unique trip and it's crazy, but the thing I'll never forget was waking in the middle of the night and getting a glass of water from the sink when we were in Maine.

It was so cool to see a basic neighborhood on an island with views of downtown Portland. We checked out downtown Portland one day and we spent a day on Peaks Island, which I highly recommend. We could have stayed an extra 2-3 nights here.įrom Bar Harbor, we drove back down the Portland and stayed 2 nights here before we flew home. We checked out the Harbor and Acadia NP which was truly AMAZING. We actually stayed in Trenton, ME at a small motel just outside of Bar Harbor. NH is super underrated.įrom NH, we drove to Bar Harbor, ME. We checked out the Flume Gorge, Crawford Notch, drove the Kancamagus Highway, and rode the Cog Railway to the summit of Mount Washington. We stayed in some little motel (Moose Lodge maybe, can't remember, lol) as you're unlikely to find chains here. We did some basic sightseeing and took in some local eats and what not.įrom Burlington, we drove to Gorham, NH which is just on the outskirts of the White Mountain National Forest close to Mount Washington. Burlington was neat as it's a hipster college town and was unique to our trip. Since we had a rental we were okay staying 15 mins outside of the the center which saved money (actually I used points for these two nights). Once we touched down in Portland we got lunch and drove directly to Burlington, VT and stayed 2 nights there. I think our longest car trip was the trek from Portland to Burlington at about 4 hours. We did all of our travel during the kids nap time and it worked out pretty well. We made sure to get unlimited miles because we drove a lot. We stayed a total of 8 nights and rented a car once we arrived in Portland using Priceline which came out to around $270. We flew southwest to Portland with a connecting flight in Baltimore IIRC. At the time we had two small children (now we have 3) at almost 3 yo and 6 months. We went to Maine from the Western Pittsburgh area two summers ago.

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