by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 14, 2018 | Day Trips
You may not know about The Maine Sculpture Trail but you might have seen a granite statue in an unlikely location somewhere in Downeast Maine. The reality is these sculptures were built over the course of years by world class artists for the towns they now live in....
by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 7, 2018 | Generally Useful Stuff
This is a counterpart to our previous blog of a guide to those wanting to know more about the cruise ships docking in Bar Harbor. If you don’t want to interact with the cruise ship and passengers, this post is your guide for how to avoid the cruise ship scene....
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 31, 2018 | Generally Useful Stuff
While cruise ships come into Bar Harbor throughout the summer, the height of cruise ship season comes in September and October when cruises come nearly every day. Sometimes more than one are scheduled for a single day! If you want to know what’s going on related...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 24, 2018 | Top Five
There’s places to hike besides Acadia National Park? You bet and we covered them in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Today our final post about hikes you can do near Acadia National Park without being in it. The Kinglet Trail at the Alycon Center Location: Seal Cove...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 17, 2018 | Top Five
In our first post in this series, we told you about the five best local hiking trails that are not part of Acadia National Park. In writing it, we realized there are way more than five we wanted to talk about. Really–there are just so many good trails that it is...
by Jane Holland | Aug 10, 2018 | Day Trips
Whether you live on MDI or just visit us a lot, it can be sometimes nice to have an adventure in the form of a day trip. Day trips mean you can keep your home base and maybe see a little something you weren’t planning on. We are going to feature regular day trip...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 3, 2018 | Maine Advice
This semi-occasional column is written by Nicole Ouellette, a former advice columnist. Here are our local, Maine-related situations this week: Dear Gift MDI, I’m on a non-profit board with a total know it all… who doesn’t know anything. He talks at...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jul 27, 2018 | Top Five
Acadia National Park is awesome. But the awesomeness of Acadia has been well-documented and overshadowing some of the other cool local hiking spots that are not Acadia. As the tourists flock to Acadia, sometimes these lesser-known spots can be wide open for your...
by Jane Holland | Jul 20, 2018 | Generally Useful Stuff
So you made it Mount Desert Island. Congratulations! (And if we are getting ahead of ourselves, check out our previous post about getting to MDI without a car.) The joy of our Island is that all the villages are pretty much walkable and most have the basics available,...
by Jane Holland | Jul 13, 2018 | Generally Useful Stuff
“Do I need to have a car on MDI?” While this question comes to us mostly from visitors, we know people who don’t drive that live here year round, so here are some thoughts for all who are wondering if they can spend time on MDI without their own car....
