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The magic of Bar Harbor...romance, adventure, the rock-bound coast and soaring granite
cliffs. From the stonewall-lined and tree-covered road leading you into our village, to
the sweeping vistas from atop Cadillac Mountain, there is a special mystique to Bar Harbor.
Nestled on the east side of Mt. Desert Island, surrounded by Acadia National Park,
we have welcomed visitors for over a hundred years. And now we welcome you, too!
Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park have a wide variety of offerings for visitors.
There truly is something for everyone. We offer a diverse assortment of accommodations in all price ranges, a wide array of activities from the most relaxed to the most rigorous, dining for all tastes and budgets and shopping in our unique shops and galleries. As you go through our guide, you will notice how much we have to see and do here. Be sure to plan enough time to enjoy our area and consider using us as a base of operations to see all of Downeast Maine. We are only a short distance to other famous attractions such as Campobello Island, Franklin Roosevelt's summer home, the Schoodic Peninsula, the mainland part of Acadia National Park, and other islands, coastal attractions and nature based attractions. Once the summer playground of wealthy and famous Americans, Bar Harbor was celebrated throughout the world as a quiet, beautiful resort village, worlds away from the hustle and bustle of New York, Boston, and Paris. Today, the "summer people" still come to our island paradise, but many visitors also arrive for the brilliant fall foliage. And more and more, people are coming to experience our winter wonderland and the surprises of spring. If this is your first visit to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, we are sure that you will have experiences that will become fond, lifetime memories. If you are returning to the island, as so many do, welcome back. Each year the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce publishes our guide book to help you plan your island escape and to serve as your companion while on the island. We have included much of the information from the guide book on this Web site for your convenience. If you would like to order the (portable) print version of the guide book, check our Books & Videos page. We hope you enjoy your visit to Bar Harbor. If we can be of assistance, stop by the Chamber office and the Acadia Welcome Center at 1201 Bar Harbor Road in Trenton, just before the bridge onto Mount Desert Island. We also have an office at 1 West Street on the pier. You can call us at (207) 288-5103 or use our e-mail response form. |