Home Port Inn in Lubec, Maine
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The twenty-five foot tidal range, leaving rocks and islands exposed and tidal pools to be explored, create an environment that children of all ages will especially enjoy. Quoddy Head State Park is a photographer's dream and is the perfect place for a picnic. Its 531 acres are there for all to enjoy in the solitude and peace that are part of its wonders. Just up Route 1, visit Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, comprising more than 22,000 acres and hosting vast arrays of land mammals such as black bear, white-tailed deer, and moose; and birds such as Osprey and the American Bald Eagle. There are trails for hiking in the summer and fall, and cross-country skiing in winter. Lakes, rivers, freshwater marshlands, open fields, and rocky coast make this area ideal to fit the needs of the day hiker and the overnight camper. Travel across the toll-free Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Bridge from Lubec and tour Canada's Campobello Island, F.D.R.'s beloved island. See the natural wonders of the island with its parks, trails, lighthouses, and coastline panoramas. Or, play golf, and visit the Roosevelt Cottage museum and visitor centre, or hike the trails or picnic in the Roosevelt Campobello International Park vast natural area. From Campobello, take a scenic ferry ride to Deer Island and observe the Old Sow Whirlpool. Then, take a second ferry on to Green's Point Lighthouse Museum at Letete and then to St. Andrews on New Brunswick's mainland in the Maritimes. Or, take a different ferry to Lubec's neighbor, Eastport, Maine, and visit Raye's Mustard Mill Museum, as well as the working model of the Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project from the 1930s at the Quoddy Maritime Museum. Then, just outside Eastport, on the Pleasant Point Reservation at Sipayik, visit the Waponahki Museum of the Passamaquoddy Tribe. |
