Maine campground goes full glam
KOA is jumping into the 'glamping' business by converting a Mount Desert Island Campground into what it calls a 'luxe outdoor resort.'
KOA is jumping into the 'glamping' business by converting a Mount Desert Island Campground into what it calls a 'luxe outdoor resort.'
Smaller ports share the same concerns as some larger ones over how many cruise ship visitors they can handle at a time.
Perfect choice for a pleasant sunny day: a 3-hour cruise on the Maine cargo/passenger ferry that serves as a lifeline to Portland's islands.
Portland's population isn't huge, but its big history and its current foodie importance make it a great place to visit.
Ubiquitous, sometimes noisy, heralds of the seashore, gulls soar with great beauty...and don't look bad on the ground.
Today's picture is doing double-duty; it served as a clue in one of the earliest Where In The World is TravelGumbo puzzles, and is still one of my favorites not only because of its calming colors and gentle shapes, but also because it reminds...
This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them. These days, the procedure would be to...
The furthest east that I reached on my drive across the country was a little town called Wells. On the map since 1643, it is the third-oldest town in Maine, has a population of around 10,000 and is a popular vacation spot in the summer...
Its promoters claim Mt. Cadillac, in Acadia National Park, sees the first sunrise in the U.S. from its perch on Maine's Mt. Desert Island—and while that's true only in fall and winter (other parts of Maine get the rest of the year) climbing or...
Although a number of contestants came close, only JohnT correctly named the locale for WITW #5. Congrats to John! Gumbo's walk in the woods was "Down East," at the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, whose headquarters are in Wells, Maine,...
Indian Pipe, seen above, is a flower commonly mistaken for a forest-dwelling fungus—and I was one of the believers until I got ready to post this picture, taken in the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge near Wells, Maine. Turns out,...
Portland, Maine is a great place to visit any time (even in the winter!) but it’s hard to imagine a more exciting moment to have been there on the day they built the world’s longest lobster roll! The roll for the roll is seen arriving,...