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Article: ANCHORED IN BAR HARBOR A WINTER VISIT TO A MAINE RESORT PROMISES SERENITY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 2, 2005
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BAR HARBOR, Maine The famous granite shoreline is sheathed in
ice, most of the shops are shuttered, and the high-society crowd has
flown to Palm Beach, Fla., and Santa Barbara, Calif. Save for cross-
country skiers gliding along the carriage roads, neighboring Acadia
National Park is all but deserted.
In short, what's not to like about Bar Harbor in winter?
Anyone who has visited Acadia, Bar Harbor, or the smaller seaside
villages of Mount Desert Island knows that driving on the island in
summer can be a clutch-and-brake nightmare. Winter changes
everything. Parking? Ample. Traffic? Virtually nil. Restaurant lines?
Hardly, and there is some wonderful food to be had in the off-
season, along ...