Presenting Maine’s Best Arts & Media selections, including Readers' Choice winners!
Best of Maine
We’ve been arguing for months. And eating. And shopping. And road-tripping. And at last, all that hard work has paid off. Presenting Maine’s best Travel and Play, from camping to cruising to hitting the links.
Mount Desert Island hosts a dozen-plus campgrounds and more than 1,200 sites. We visited nearly all of them last summer (really) and decided on the best ones.
The park is a day hiker’s paradise with some 125 miles of trails, from shoreline strolls to rocky, exposed ridge routes. Here are a few of our favorites.
We got up early and ate our way across the state to bring you this definitive list of Vacationland’s 30 most mouthwatering breakfast dishes — sweet to savory, traditional to oddball. This is how Maine does the most important meal of the day.
Another year, another Down East Best of Maine Readers’ Choice poll. Some 5,000 of you cast a ballot this year, and you’re an opinionated bunch. The results include some newcomers in their categories and some stalwart shoo-ins that just can’t seem to lose.
Tiny houses. Tiny trees. Homegrown seedlings. Fancy concrete. Here are our 2015 editors' choices for the Best of Maine Home and Garden.
Rollercoasters. Jungle gyms. Blueberry clouds. Newbery Honors. Here are our 2015 editors' choices for the Best of Maine Family.
Ukrainian fusion folk. Social media shutterbugs. Hollywood starlets. Highbrow foot laundry. The Best of Maine Editors' Choice winners for "Culture."
On newsstands: Our handy, savvy, witty guide to our favorite Maine everything. Plus: Our readers weigh in with their own picks on food, travel, entertainment, the arts, and more. The only list you need for a smashing Maine summer.
Waste-hauling earth savers, chicken-frying fundraisers and party-throwing do-gooders. See the winners in our "Best of Maine" community category!
YouTube sensations, homegrown rap and locally quarried rock.