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Photo: Christian Collins
For decades we have passed by Bar Harbor, choosing to access the Hannaford grocery store and pharmacy by using the Acadia National Park/L. L. Bean bus from Northeast Harbor. When Covid stopped the bus, we gave Bar Harbor a try, and found that Bar Harbor offers a host of services, including a well-staffed hospital emergency room, a well-organized harbor with municipal moorings and a friendly harbormaster (Chris Wharff–isn’t that a great name for a harbormaster?!), and even some WiFi wafting out from the resorts complementing strong cellular service. If you want a gazillion shops, restaurants, great provisioning, and the iconic Acadia National Park, give Bar Harbor a try.
As mentioned above, there are municipal moorings in the main harbor as well as room to anchor, and a large dinghy dock and trash dumpster at the town landing. Be advised that while there is a no wake zone, there is the occasional tour boat, yacht tender or lobster boat that might be a bit discourteous. For a quieter experience, you will find many visiting yachts anchored off College of the Atlantic west of Bar Island. The college has a dinghy dock. You can reserve a town mooring or dock space on Dockwa.
VHF
Harbormaster – Channel 9 and 16
FUEL
NA
WATER
Contact Harbormaster.
ELECTRICITY
At town slips
SHOWERS
At Harbormaster building.
LAUNDRY
Bar Harbor Laundromat, open 24 hours 6 Pleasant St (207) 288-2824
WIFI
From hotels ashore, good with booster antenna, also 4 bars of Verizon LTE. Jesup Memorial Library, 34 Mt Desert St, (207) 288-4245
PUMP OUT
NA
SERVICES
NA
TRASH
Dumpster on town pier.
MEDICAL
MDI Hospital 10 Wayman Ln, (207) 288-5081
MORE BOAT AMENITIES
Photo: David Wilson
Harbormaster monitors Channel 9 and 16, 207-288-5571, Email: [email protected]. The town’s dinghy dock is on the west side of the town pier, behind the dock where commercial fishing boats unload.
Photo: Peekytoe Provisions, TripAdvisor
Hannaford Supermarket, 86 Cottage St., (207) 288-3621, has a pharmacy.
Peekytoe Provisions, 244 Main St., is a small market/restaurant with local offerings.
Walgreens, 34 Cottage St., (207) 288-2222, is a good-sized drugstore/pharmacy.
Photo: MDI Ice Cream
Bar Harbor has enough restaurants to meet just about any craving–wander up and down Main Street and the side streets. TripAdvisor can help you choose. After you’ve chosen where to dine, be sure to go to Mt. Desert Ice Cream, 7 Firefly Lane, across from the village green, for dessert, or mid-morning snack, or mid-afternoon snack…you get the idea.
Photo: Paul VanDerWerf
Acadia National Park has magnificent hiking trails. Catch a bus at the village green.
Photo: Abbe Museum
Of course one of the main attractions of Bar Harbor is its proximity to Acadia National Park. The buses that line up at the village green also go to other locations on the island, so it’s a great way to explore.
In Bar Harbor, don’t miss the Abbe Museum, a contemporary museum that is the first and only Smithsonian Affiliate in the state of Maine, with a special emphasis on the history and culture of the Wabanaki people, on whose land Maine has been built.
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