With no backcountry to speak of, Acadia is one of the country’s few dog-friendly national parks: all the carriage roads, most trails, and all the campgrounds (except on Isle au Haut) welcome leashed ...

Driving over the Penobscot Narrows Bridge never fails to stir a certain hard-to-define feeling, a mixture of awe and calm and anticipation conjured up by the span’s swooping lines, the sight of its ...

Meet the husband-and-wife duo who want to bring the coast to you. A Down East Shop maker spotlight. Candles were a natural choice for the Gaffneys, who live with their two boys in a cottage in Edgecomb ...

The only Acadia peak you can summit on a bike, Day Mountain is modest enough, at 584 feet, to have skirted Rockefeller’s prohibition on mountaintop carriage roads. Bikers don’t need to be in Tour de ...

The first time Vinalhaven lobsterboat captain Frank Thompson trapped hagfish in the Gulf of Maine, the pinkish-gray, snakelike animals popped the hatch off his hold — with their slime. When stressed ...

Lucas St. Clair works very hard to make people forget Roxanne Quimby. As the new face of the plan to create a national park in northern Maine, he has opened once-closed land to hunting and ATVs and ...

Cyndi’s Dockside Restaurant, in Poland Spring. “Cyndi, the owner, is like my aunt, although we’ve only met a handful of times. I love her chicken fingers and fish. It just feels like home when I walk ...

The historic mills and bridges, hot dogs and fish tacos from food trucks on the mall, the architecture and big old trees and museums on the Bowdoin College campus. Also, the proximity to the fishing ...

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It’s the Maine state tree, but it’s super resinous and, like softwoods generally, produces poor heat output and little in the way of coals. However, it catches easily, smells lovely, and can be ...

“There’s nothing more relaxing, rejuvenating, and inspiring than hiking and photographing Baxter in fall.” Ongoing Project Climate Reanalyzer, an online platform for visually interpreting publicly ...

We couldn’t suppress a shock of recognition this winter upon opening our laptops and suddenly reading everywhere about the rise of the “lumbersexual.” You managed to miss this? Coined in October by ...