Taking the No. 1 spot for best small town in the Northeast is Castine, a historic coastal town on Penobscot Bay.

FILE – In July 31, 2018 file photo, visitors to Maine’s Acadia National Park gather to watch the sunrise on top of Cadillac Mountain. The park recently unveiled a plan for a “timed-entry reservation ...

The U.S. Coast Guard still maintains the beacon, but it transferred ownership to Acadia National Park on July 8, 2020. Visitors may not enter the house, but it's best observed from outside ...

Taking a whale-watching tour should be on everyone’s bucket list. Seeing these majestic, awe-inspiring creatures in their ...

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Two weeks after reservations opened, the campground was already full from mid-July to mid-August ... Last year, Acadia National Park launched an online alert system that gives visitors real ...

White-nose syndrome, a disease that is fatal to bats and which has been moving across the country in recent years, has been ...

We are so lucky to live in Massachusetts because there are so many fantastic places to visit in New England, which are just a ...

My first whale watch did not go well. At the time I was a student in meteorology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island. It was the Fourth of July — a holiday for ...

This park, accessible by plane from Anchorage or Kodiak, is one of the best places in the world to watch bears in their natural habitat, especially during the salmon run in July and September ... the ...

The biggest draw for visitors to Bar Harbor is nearby Acadia National Park, with outstanding scenery created by receding ... which can be found in July and August all over the region. Drink your fruit ...