Outdoor Adventures in Maine's Bar Harbor/Acadia Region (ME)

Your one-of-a-kind adventure awaits at Weatherby’s, one of the country’s oldest and most famous sporting lodges. Let the lodge staff help you create a custom outdoor package, whether it’s teaching your children how to fish for smallmouth bass in a glacial lake in the summer or just you, a guide and your dogs on the hunt for wild grouse and woodcock in the fall. Hone your fly-fishing skills fishing for landlocked salmon in Grand Lake Stream, ME, or learn the craft in an all-inclusive fly-fishing school. Stay in one of the lodge’s comfortable log-cabin cottages, with open brick or Franklin-style fireplaces and screened porches. Fine, home-cooked meals are served in the dining room, or let your guide cook what you caught in a memorable shore dinner.

Hit the trails, the waterways and the parks of the Bar Harbor area when you establish your Maine vacation headquarters at the beautiful Bluenose Inn. With panoramic ocean views from luxurious suites, oversized rooms and a well-appointed apartment, the inn is a great place to plan your hiking and biking adventures in Acadia National Park as well as kayaking and canoeing trips, whale-watching and other boating excursions, rock-climbing opportunities and walking trails. The inn features heated indoor and outdoor pools, a hot tub and fitness center. Its Looking Glass Restaurant serves up an amazing breakfast with an equally amazing view of Frenchman Bay. Guests enjoy live music in the Great Room and piano bar as well as gatherings by the fire pit.

Let a hearty, home-cooked breakfast at one of the Bar Harbor Bed and Breakfast Association’s 18 inns start your outdoor adventures in Bar Harbor. Acadia National Park awaits, with miles of scenic hiking trails and carriage roads for biking (and the sunrise from the top of Cadillac Mountain is amazing). If you want a water adventure, there’s kayaking, canoeing, and cruises aboard four-masted schooners. Take an excursion to see lighthouses, whales – and puffins! Go golfing, sit back and enjoy an outdoor concert or stroll through the town’s many boutiques and galleries. You’ll find outside dining everywhere, so don’t forget this is lobster roll territory. End your day at your inn, in a hot tub or with a cocktail by a toasty fire pit.