Maine is a must see state with beautiful places to cover. Its famous for rafting and fall foliage. It's economical too.
It was more of a family vacation with sister, brother in law and a friend in summer of 2015. We drove directly to northern part of the state to Acadia National park. We watched the very famous sunrise in Acadia at 4:19 am. Its very picturesque. Acadia national park lives to its name, so many vista points and hiking trails here. Some that we followed-
Cadillac mountain- Famous sunrise view point
Ocean trail- Do not miss this. Its absolutely mesmerizing to walk on rocks by Atlantic ocean. I sat for hours while the waves crashed on the rocks with my feet dipped in the water. In this trip I realized how much my brother in law loves taking the pics. This trail is so beautiful that you feel like clicking picture every minute. There are so many vista points on this trail.
Park loop road - Stop for amazing vista points
Jordan pond- Its very pretty and photos here look like paintings, must see
Sand beach- It's one of the most beautiful beach that I have ever been to, must see
Thunder hole- This is accessible by ocean trail. Waves crashing into the hole was a good sight.
Light house- Light house in Acadia is not clearly visible, but can be seen from far. Nevertheless sunset was pretty.
Next day, we covered the very famous Portland Head Lighthouse. Its a must and there is very short trail by ocean at some elevation here. This Lighthouse along with trail can be covered in max 2.5 hrs. For the first time I tried deep fried pizza in Portland and I loved it. It was July 4th and so we went to see the fireworks by the ocean and then to amazing club 'Pearl'. The music was good and our friend finally catched a free t shirt that was being thrown from the stage. We all bought July 4th T shirts from downtown.
Next day we visited Casco bay. There are lot of ferries that go to multiple islands.Most of the islands are privately owned so that is why ferries are there to take you around those. We took the shortest one to the Peaks island which we wanted to explore on our own. We saw amazing houses on privately owned islands on the way. For the first time we drove the golf cart on an island and its so cheap to rent it here. Also very easy to drive. Again lot of picturesque viewpoints here. You can cover the whole island in an hour by golf cart.
On our way back we checked the largest rotating and revolving globe in the world - Eartha. Don't miss it. It's on the way from Acadia to Portland. Worth checking out and my brother in law bought a big world map. So, if you are into maps, this is the place for you because not everywhere you can get such big maps.
It was more of a family vacation with sister, brother in law and a friend in summer of 2015. We drove directly to northern part of the state to Acadia National park. We watched the very famous sunrise in Acadia at 4:19 am. Its very picturesque. Acadia national park lives to its name, so many vista points and hiking trails here. Some that we followed-
Cadillac mountain- Famous sunrise view point
Ocean trail- Do not miss this. Its absolutely mesmerizing to walk on rocks by Atlantic ocean. I sat for hours while the waves crashed on the rocks with my feet dipped in the water. In this trip I realized how much my brother in law loves taking the pics. This trail is so beautiful that you feel like clicking picture every minute. There are so many vista points on this trail.
Park loop road - Stop for amazing vista points
Jordan pond- Its very pretty and photos here look like paintings, must see
Sand beach- It's one of the most beautiful beach that I have ever been to, must see
Thunder hole- This is accessible by ocean trail. Waves crashing into the hole was a good sight.
Light house- Light house in Acadia is not clearly visible, but can be seen from far. Nevertheless sunset was pretty.
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| Sunrise from Cadillac mountain |
Next day we visited Casco bay. There are lot of ferries that go to multiple islands.Most of the islands are privately owned so that is why ferries are there to take you around those. We took the shortest one to the Peaks island which we wanted to explore on our own. We saw amazing houses on privately owned islands on the way. For the first time we drove the golf cart on an island and its so cheap to rent it here. Also very easy to drive. Again lot of picturesque viewpoints here. You can cover the whole island in an hour by golf cart.
On our way back we checked the largest rotating and revolving globe in the world - Eartha. Don't miss it. It's on the way from Acadia to Portland. Worth checking out and my brother in law bought a big world map. So, if you are into maps, this is the place for you because not everywhere you can get such big maps.
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