Home to Acadia National Park, Mount Desert
Island off the coast of Maine with its beaches, sweeping
cliffs
and mountains offers visitors numerous recreational activities,
from hiking, biking and following nature trails to swimming,
sailing and kayaking.
An upper-class resort town in the 19th century,
Bar Harbor now serves visitors to Acadia National Park with
inns, motels, and restaurants. Most of its grand mansions
were destroyed in a fire that devastated the island in 1947,
but many surviving estates have been converted into inns
and restaurants. Motels abound, yet the town retains the
beauty of a commanding location on Frenchman Bay. Shops,
restaurants, and hotels are clustered along Main, Mount Desert,
and Cottage streets. Take a stroll down West Street, a National
Historic District, where you can see some of the grand cottages
that survived the fire.