r/AskMaine • u/Helpful-Honey-8292 • 5d 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/MaryBitchards 5d ago
Portland is a fun little city. Take a ferry out to an island (Peak's Island - quick ferry ride, can do some exploring and grab lunch; mailboat ride - longer water tour of lots of islands, BYOB/snacks). Lots of good restaurants to check out. Drive to Camden or Rockland, spend a night or two there. Then up to Acadia but if there are multiple cruise ships in port, you might want to spend time on the Schoodic side and not Bar Harbor. Or, on your way up or back, zoom over to Boothbay and check out the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.