By Hilary Nangle on September 28, 2011
What better way to spend a glorious autumn morning than hiking in Maine’s Acadia National Park. It’s not only views that make hiking the Beachcroft Trail up Acadia’s Huguenot Head so rewarding, but also the trail itself. It’s an engineering masterpiece, comprising nearly 1,500 pink granite steps that snake through woods and over ledges. According [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Champlain Mountain, hiking, Huguenot Head |
By Hilary Nangle on September 21, 2011
Most of my friends who live beyond Maine’s borders think I live in the most ideal place. And they’re right, to a point. But I think there’s an even better place, and that’s one of the islands off the Maine coast. Especially in autumn, when the crowds are gone, the light is soft, the air [...]
Posted in Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Resources, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Adam Campbell, Nebo Lodge, North Haven Island, organic farm, oysters, Turner Farm |
By Hilary Nangle on September 20, 2011
Barak Olins is passionate about bread. Every Friday, he handcrafts 200 loaves, using traditional French bread-making methods and certified organic ingredients, including whole grains that he mills just prior to mixing the dough. Then, he bakes them in a brick oven he built on his South Freeport, Maine, property. Olins’ Zu Bakery breads are as [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged artisan bread, artisanal bread, Barak Olins, Brunswick, Brunswick Farmers Market, Crystal Springs Community Farm, Freeport, Zu Bakery |
By Hilary Nangle on September 19, 2011
Last week, I had the good fortune to visit a number of Maine farms with the Maine Farmland Trust, an organization that’s working to preserve Maine’s working farms and agricultural landscape and support farming’s future. Some of the farms I visited are supplying restaurants, such as Fore Street, in Portland, and the Harraseeket Inn, in [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Cape Elizabeth, farm stands, Jordan's Farm, restaurants, The Well at Jordan's Farm |
By Hilary Nangle on September 14, 2011
If you think vegan dining isn’t delicious, you’ve never dined at Eden Restaurant, in Bar Harbor, Maine. Eden serves vegan fare that could turn even the most committed cowboy carnivore into a veggie-eating happy hipster. After a couple of year’s closure, Eden reopened in a spacious new digs on Bar Harbor’s Main Street, in the [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Bar Harbor, Eden restaurant, vegan, vegetarian |
By Hilary Nangle on September 13, 2011
Recently, we dined with friends at Fathom, a new-in 2011 restaurant in downtown Bar Harbor, Maine. After one meal, we understood why other guests at the Ullikana, the inn where we’re staying, had returned not once, but four times during their one-week stay. Fathom is located just off Cottage Street in the space occupied previously [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Moon guidebook updates | Tagged Bar Harbor, Fathom restaurant, fine dining, review |
By Hilary Nangle on September 12, 2011
Shhhh, now don’t tell too many people about Compass Harbor, a lovely little, relatively unmarked section of Acadia National Park that’s an easy one mile stroll from downtown Bar Harbor, Maine. Whether you’re coming in on a cruise ship and simply want a little quiet time or are intown and trying to escape the shopping/ice [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Hiking, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, George Dorr |
By Hilary Nangle on September 5, 2011
A reader asked: “I want to visit Maine and stay at a motel/hotel cottage/guest house where I can have a view of the harbour and watch the lobster being unloaded. Any ideas?” I sure do. Here are five accommodations that provide a view over working lobster wharves. • Tidewater Motel, Vinalhaven Island Really, you can’t [...]
Posted in Acadia, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Down East Coast, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Motels, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Elsa's inn, Harbor House, Inn at the Wharf, Inn on the Harbor, inns overlooking lobster wharves, Jonesport, Lubec, Moose-a-bec Manor, Prospect Harbor, Stonington, Tidewater Motel, Vinalhaven |
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