Something about the bracing smell of salt water, the plaintive cry of gulls, and the crashing of waves against rocky shores opens all my senses to the joy at hand: exploring Maine’s famous coastline ...

Miles Howard is a regular Globe Ideas contributor and author of the Substack newsletter Mind the Moss. I first saw Acadia National Park’s iconic oceanside cliffs years ago through the windshield of a ...

Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor fared through a peak weekend for tourism with the park open, but many facilities inside it unstaffed. For now, Acadia National Park in Maine is open to the public ...