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The Seashore Trolley Museum - The Seashore Trolley Museum, founded in 1939, is the oldest and largest in the world dedicated to the preservation and operation of urban and interurban transit vehicles. Explore the "National Collection of American Trolleys". This magnificent living history museum covers over 320 acres of wooded Maine countryside and features over 250 trolleys. Scenic narrated rides on over 4 miles of track are available.

Sohier Park – Overlooking beautiful Cape Nedick Lighthouse Station, fondly known at "the Nubble". Gift shop, restrooms and scuba diving site.

York Harbor Wiggley Bridge – a dirt causeway leads to Wiggley Bridge then enters Stedman Woods bird sanctuary and walking trail.

Mount Agamenticus – From the summit of Mt Agamenticus one can see the Atlantic Ocean, the Nubble, the Piscataqua River Bridge, and on a really clear day, Mount Washington. Numerous trails spread over the mountain’s 3,000 acres, which are prized by hikers, and ever-increasing bikers. There is horseback riders, bird watchers, picnickers and those who live to simply lie in the sun on the top of a mountain and enjoy the views from this 692’ summit cherish the mountain. From Rte 1 in York, take Mountain Road to its highest point. Then take a right to the summit of Mt. Agamenticus. There is parking at the peak, as well as at the base for those desiring to hike or mountain bike their way to the summit.

Marginal Way – World famous awe-inspiring 1-mile oceanfront scenic walk from Perkins Cove.

Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge – The Rachel Carson Refuge is part of a nationwide system of refuges created to protect wildlife and their valuable habitats at key locations along migration routes. When completed, the refuge will consist of 7,435 acres of salt marsh and adjacent upland habitat in ten divisions between Kittery and Cape Elizabeth. This marshland was highly valued by the early settlers for the harvesting of salt marsh hay. The dikes they constructed can still be seen along the marshes. This coastal marsh area provides habitat for a wide variety of birds, mammals and plants. Over 250 species of birds can be observed on or from the refuge during the year. A one-mile long wheelchair accessible nature trail with an associated interpretative leaflet is available at the headquarters site. Literature, maps and other information can also be obtained at the Refuge office, located on Route 9, between Kennebunkport and Wells.

Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm Farm – A captivating living field laboratory preserving 1,600 acres of marshes, forests, fields, and historic saltwater farm buildings. Seven miles of walking trails and boardwalks along the saltwater marshes. Laudholm Farm, an historic saltwater farm, is the focal point of the Reserve. The restored farmhouse now serves as a Visitor Center with a welcoming slide show, five rooms of exhibits, and a nature gift shop.

Wells Points of Historic Interest – Wells is rich in its historic import to early America. Old barns, Victorian cemeteries, farmhouses, pastures, and monuments are found throughout the community. These reminders of our founding fathers and the early settlers have remained intact through the years. Many generations of the same family have remained and continue to reside in the area in the very same homesteads. Many of the actual buildings have been relocated within the town to accommodate new roads and technology. Wells is fortunate that the buildings themselves have survived, as so many early buildings were lost to great fires, floods, and neglect. In 2003, Wells will celebrate its 350th anniversary. Plans are already underway for this monumental event.

Nature Conservancy Blueberry Barrens – Route 99, Blueberry fields and nature trails over 1,500 acres.

Parsons Way – A beautiful Oceanside walk beginning near the Colony Hotel beach on Ocean Avenue by the mouth of the Kennebunk River to Walkers Point. Kennebunkport’s most strikingly dramatic stretch of coastline. Walking along the rocky coast, you’ll pass the striking setting of St. Ann’s Church, Spouting Rock which spurts streams of water at high tide, and Blowing Cave - with a terrific vantage point to Bush’s estate across the cove, which blasts water high in the sky (and often on unexpectant onlookers).

Walker’s Point "The Bush Estate" – Located on the rugged rocky coastline. Follow Ocean Avenue’s scenic drive to former President George Bush’s summer estate perched on the picturesque peninsula of Walker’s Point, Kennebunkport, Maine.

Wedding Cake House – Route 35, a most often photographed ornately decorated Federal home, 1825. Kennebunk, Maine.

Geographically, culturally and historically Maine offers a bit of everything - from its famed rocky coast to western lakes and mountains, from quaint fishing villages to bustling outlet centers. Maine calls to sporting enthusiasts, to artists and to everyone who longs to break away from the mechanized routines of city and suburban life. Best of all, Maine is an easy flight or drive from New York, and just a two-hour drive from Boston.

For visitors eager to experience the fabled wide open spaces of North America, Maine presents a paradox of unspoiled landscape and cultural villages. For many, Maine evokes images of 19th-century sea captains, shipbuilding and widow's walks. Indeed, by the mid-19th century, Maine was the sailing and shipbuilding capital of the United States and an international port of call. Monuments of that time can be found up and down the coast in the form of ancient lighthouses and stately sea captain's mansions now turned intobed & breakfast accommodations.

Summer in Maine is warm days and cool nights. Swimming, hiking, biking, canoeing, whitewater rafting and shopping. It's puffin watching and deep-sea fishing, challenging golf courses and tennis, street festivals and musical theater. Hundreds of fairs, festivals and crafts shows take place during the summer, and special days are devoted to some of Maine's best-known foods - the lobster, the clam, blueberries and potatoes. Best of all, summer in Maine is the perfect place to relax - to get away from it all, to rediscover what "taking a vacation" really means. Summer turns to fall as a refreshing chill creeps into the once-sultry evenings, and the leaves along the roadside take on their first faint flush of reds and golds. By late September, when the seasonal transformation is all but complete, the summer visitors are replaced by those who seek a different, more bracing kind of vacation that is unique to Maine.

Tour buses, recreational vehicles and cars from everywhere take to the backroads of Maine to revel in the incomparable pageant of autumn colors. More and more these days, the four-wheeled leaf-peepers share the roads with the two-wheeled variety who roam the state on motorcycles and mountain bicycles. Fall in Maine is also a backpacker's paradise, offering a diversity of natural splendor to satisfy the lightest of walkers to the hardiest hikers. Maine, richly endowed with jewel-like lakes, has long enjoyed an unmatched reputation among fishing enthusiasts throughout the country. Though September 30 marks the end of the trout and salmon fishing season, many southern Maine lakes remain open for warm-water angling -- bass, pickerel and perch -- until the end of October.

During November, the white-tailed deer bounds through the imagination of every hunter who yearns for the thrill of encountering this most beautiful and elusive game animal. Traditions rule the Maine hunting season, and none is more satisfying than partaking of a hearty hunters breakfast at dawn in the jovial warmth of a Grange hall or church basement.

The first snowfall is usually not far behind. Soon, a welcome blanket of white has covered the barren land, softening its roughraw edges and muffling the scraping winds.

Winter in Maine features excitement as 10 top-notch ski areas offer more than 360 down hill trails for alpine ski enthusiasts, while cross-country skiers will find hundreds of miles of trails on which to glide silently through snowy forests in the crisp clean air. If you're looking for something different, rent a toboggan or "mush" your way across Maine's winter wonderland behind a dog sled and team.

For a change of pace, travel on Maine's 3,000 miles of interconnected snowmobiling trails or try your hand at ice fishing, ice skating or ice sailing. Whatever your reason, and whatever the season you visit, all of Maine is ready to say "welcome."