Any other suggestions? Appreciate your time! Deone
I just randomly checked my home state forum. Normally never look as it is such a desert! What is your taste in lodging ? and what are you looking do besides eat lobster til you puke? Be sure to have some steamers with your lobster. In between, have some fried clams. Whole belly of course! While our mountains and woods are very nice (the north maine woods is the biggest block of undeveloped forest east of the Mississippi) and looking for a moose is almost required for tourists, looking at stuff on the ocean is probably higher on the to do list for someone from the middle of the country. They offer toursit trips to pull lobster traps. That would be fun for an outdoorsy person. Shore excursions along the coast are good, as well as whale watching trips further off shore. They also do Puffing trips
If your in the booth bay area a walk out on the break water in the middle of the bay makes for a nice easy walk to stretch the legs, see the bay and water views, possibly watch some lobster traps being tended, etc etc. Maine has one of the highest per capita small breweries for any state in the USA. Portland has some interesting things, lots of breweries, a good ferry service between the islands in casco bay, etc but I don't think I would recommend staying the whole week in portland. I would aim for maybe a couple days and one night in portland, a night or two in booth bay harbor and further north up the coast. Washington county is poor and has a stark kind of beauty. There are a number of acess points you can hike through woods and along stretches of undeveloped coastal ledges. If down east I would spend half a day to go look at the blueberry barrens where the small low bush blueberries come from. In early august the harvest will be underway as well. Blueberry pie is strongly reccomended.
Helens resturaunt in machias is a long time land mark. Campabello island on the canadian border is interesting.
A day trip up to the county is interestig to see all the crops which are completely different than the rest of maine. You also stand a good chance of seeing a moose. Rt 11 from interstate 95 north to Ashland offers a great stretch to see a moose Mount desert island is a huge touristy place but the small mountains right next to the ocean are very beautiful. Just north of there is scoodic peninsula. It is equally beutifull ledgy ocean side and a one way scenic loop with far less people.
Erik
In fact most of the coast in the summer is just a tourist trap. Being from Kansas and wanting to see Maine I assume the coast. The only way to do that in the summer is East of Ellsworth to Lubec. If you like to hike you can Google “bold coast” in Cutler. If you want to see the “old” Maine then head north to Aroostook County to see the potato and broccoli fields. Then a trip to the NW corner. Enter the “North Maine Woods” in the town of Allagash at daylight and spend a couple hundred miles on the gravel roads and maybe see a few moose or a bear (you can Google the NMW)
Or you can stay in Portland 40 miles over the New Hampshire border and be elbow to elbow with everyone else from away and say you’ve been to Maine … with 300+ miles left to see
