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Best of Maine

Best of Maine 2020

Readers and editors share their picks for Maine’s best everything: bookstores to breweries, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects. How'd your favorites do?
History

In Search of the Old Home Place

For a rootless descendant of some of Maine’s earliest settlers, solace is a quiet shore on a secluded tidal bay.
Phuc Tran of Portland’s Tsunami Tattoo10
Arts & Leisure

Do You Even Love Maine If You Don’t Have a Maine-y Tattoo?

Four questions for author and tattoo artist Phuc Tran about the most conspicuous manifestations of Maine pride.
The third-floor deck at Bistro 1828, on Kittery Point’s Pepperrell Cove.Well at Jordan’s Farm
Food & Drink

The 33 Best Places for Outdoor Dining in Maine

All around Maine, memorable outdoor dining dishes up a slice of summer.
all the edible parts of a lobster
Food & Drink

The Edible Parts of a Lobster, Ranked

From yeah! to meh: An opinionated guide to bug bites.
Phone Mart is a helpful radio segment in Franklin County Maine
Our Towns

In Praise of Phone Mart

In a small Maine town, the call-in radio swap-show is a way of knowing your neighbors.
Where in Maine, September 2020
Photography

Can You Name This Magnificent Maine Waterway?

This month's Where in Maine is a wilderness ribbon.
Percival Baxter, fellow legislators, the state’s chief warden and fish-and-game commissioner exploring what would become Baxter State Park
History

The 100-Year-Old Hiking Trip that Changed Maine Forever

Before he was Maine's greatest benefactor, Percival Baxter was just another nature-loving politico huffing and puffing up Katahdin.
The meadow campsite on Whaleboat Island.
Travel & Outdoors

The Best Places to Camp in Maine

Twenty-five spots perfect for kindling a fire, rolling out a sleeping bag, and unwinding in the Maine outdoors. (And yes, for social distancing.)
Dean Bugaj, Neowise and auroras at Grafton Notch
Photography

Ben’s Picks: 30+ WOW Photos of Comet NEOWISE

From photographers across the state, 34 spectacular shots of our recent celestial visitor.
Where in Maine?
Photography

Can You Name This Maritime Landmark?

This month's Where in Maine is one of the area’s best places to consistently spot harbor seals.
Maine's Bald Mountains, Camden, Maine
Travel & Outdoors

Every “Bald Mountain” in Maine: A Concise Guide

Reasons #54–70 in our "200 Reasons to Love Maine" special bicentennial issue.
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My Final Days on the Maine Coast

August 2025 Where in Maine? photo clue

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