Beginning in Milbridge at the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge (MCINWR) Visitors Center, the short drive to Petit Manan provides an intimate glimpse into…
Thierry BonnevilleAugust 18, 2022
Byway travelers will experience a landscape on the Bold Coast that exists nowhere else in the world – wide open expanses of low-bush wild blueberry…
Thierry BonnevilleAugust 18, 2022
Great Wass Island Preserve in Beals is a relatively hidden Bold Coast gem. Paddlers can launch in Jonesport and explore the inlets and islands around…
Thierry BonnevilleAugust 18, 2022
Jonesport and Beals are a rough and ready “behind-the-scenery” experience of a DownEast fishing community still populated by generations of lobster fishing families. This is…
Thierry BonnevilleAugust 18, 2022
Bold Coast communities are protective of the natural resources crucial to their way of life. Downtown Machias is the convening point for four conservation properties,…
Thierry BonnevilleAugust 18, 2022
Machias developed around the confluence of three rivers at the head of Machias Bay. The Scenic Byway passes over the mighty Machias River where it…
Thierry BonnevilleAugust 18, 2022
The Byway passes through East Machias Historic District, then skirts the very edge of Holmes and Little Machias bays atop an open, field-covered bluff with…
Thierry BonnevilleAugust 18, 2022
A short spur trip off the Scenic Byway toward Quoddy Head State Park and West Quoddy Head Lighthouse skirts Lubec Channel, providing an open view…
Thierry BonnevilleAugust 18, 2022
Lubec, easternmost community of the continental US, juts out into Lubec Channel, the international border with New Brunswick, Canada. Lubec Channel forms a tight bottleneck…
Thierry BonnevilleAugust 18, 2022
