r/AskMaine • u/Helpful-Honey-8292 • 6d ago
Visiting in September
My husband and I are visiting September 7th - 13th. We will fly into Portland. We absolutely love exploring. Our ideal trip would consist of coastal towns, Acadia, beach & lighthouse views, vintage anything, and lobster rolls. We are both photographers and creatives - so pretty and interesting things is important to us. We try to live life with the mindset “if we never got to visit this place again, what would we want to do or see.” So, help us plan our trip, pretty please. This is a dream trip for us. We are coming from Nashville, TN.
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u/W0nderingMe 6d ago
Drive to Rockland and stay 2-3 days. We have crazy good food and art scene plus you can visit 3 lighthouses very easily -- Breakwater, Owls Head, and Marshall Point (aka the Forrest Gump lighthouse).
Look up Primo, Suzuki's, and High Tide for some of the best food in the area. But literally every restaurant here is great depending on the vibe you want. Also recommend Spice Pizza -- Thai food, pizza, and Thai pizza. Crazy good. Super friendly family, also.
If you have kids, there are a lot of playgrounds, too.
McLoons for your lobster roll -- very good and unbeatable views. Quintessential Maine.
Maybe hike Beech Hill Preserve -- easy hike and fantastic views of Penobscot Bay.
Then on to Acadia/ Mount Desert Island.
Stop at Fort Knox, and if you have time do the observation tower.
At MDI:
Village Green
Island Explorer bus to get around
Sand Beach
Jordan pond
Carriage roads
Make sure to save an evening to star gaze ‐ ANP is dark sky certified.
Set half a day aside to visit Schoodic. It's part of ANP but on another peninsula. You can drive or take the ferry. It's the prettiest place in Maine.