We had a hard time finding parking in Bar Harbor, but we got lucky and found a spot on a side street. The town itself is very quaint, with lots of expensive-looking places to stay. The marina there didn’t really compare to Camden or Boothbay Harbor, but it was a nice walk around anyway. We walked around town, bought some blueberry wine, and had some homemade blueberry ice cream. Can you tell it was blueberry season?

We headed out to do the Dorr Mountain Ladder trail. Our Frommers book recommended it and it sounded like a cool, although strenuous, hike. It turned out to be strenuous all right. The trail was mostly comprised of a series of stone steps. They varied from small to large, and they led steeply up the side of the mountain. Along the way, there were three iron ladders of various types (regular ladder, rungs, and rickety hanging ladder) and passed through a few crevices cut into the rock, one of which was barely big enough to fit us. At the top the view was amazing, making the hard hike worth it. We rested our hot, tired, weary legs and had lunch.

By the time we got down from the trail, and went back to the camp to shower, it was time for dinner! We had made reservations (our first dinner out of the trip) at Maggie’s, a restaurant in Bar Harbor that grows their own organic produce and only uses fresh local ingredients. We loved our dinner, and it turned out relatively cheap. We had lobster cheddar baked potato, smoked mussels with dill potatoes, cornmeal-encrusted Boston Blue fish, scallops and bacon with a corn salsa, banana ice cream topped with cashew crunch brittle, and strawberry rhubarb with vanilla ice cream and almond crunch.