Downeast Maine Attractions

Ocean Spray is located midway between Bar Harbor and Campobello Island, Canada. Within an hour’s drive of both, it’s easy to plan a variety of day trips with Ocean Spray Cottages your home base. Here are some of the many ways to spend your days Downeast:

• Robertson Sea Tours & Adventures, Milbridge
• Downeast Coastal Cruises
• Schoodic Point and Acadia National Park
• Roosevelt-Campobello International Park
• Quoddy Head Lighthouse
• Self-guided Lighthouse Tours
• Petit Manan Wildlife Refuge – hike two shore trails that weave through wild blueberry barrens
• Roque Bluffs State Park – – A perfect spot to watch for birds!
• Antique galleries, gift shops and galleries abound – read more
• Parks, wildlife refuges, hiking trails, bird watching, wildlife watching – read more
• Bartlett Maine Estate Winery
• Catherine’s Hill Winery, Cherryfield, ME
• Machias Wild Blueberry Festival held in August
• Lobster Boat Races
• Sunrise Canoe & Kayak Rentals
• Big Chicken Barn (books and antiques)  (one of my favorites)
• Yard Sales – Church Fairs – Bean Suppers
• Antiquing
• View the vast blueberry barrens and peat bogs
• Puffin & Whale watching cruises
• Wreaths Across America Museum  http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/
• Local artists:  Hazel Carter at Blue Heron Art Gallery and Sandra Priest both right here in Harrington.  http://www.sandrapriest.com/about.html/  http://www.cherryfield.us/blueheron/about.shtml

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