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When is the Best Time to Visit Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island?

The “best time” to visit Mount Desert Island depends upon your personality. The seasons change dramatically on the Island throughout the year. This provides a best time for a wide range of personality types. After all, each season fits people differently.

What is the best time to visit Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island?

Some would say that the summer season is not long enough here. But in a way, our summer is far more valuable than the ideal conditions one would find in places where the weather is warm and sunny year-round. For it is the long Winter nights which make Bar Harbor, Maine and New England Summers the best you’ll ever experience!

Here on Mount Desert Island, there is a season that is just right for your personality type as well.

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What you saw on MDI during the Coronavirus Crisis

Nothing to see here… unless nature is enough for you

If you were planning to come to Mount Desert Island while the Coronavirus was still a national crisis a year ago, what would you expect?

Don’t expect things to be as they were the last time you were here. This time, your vacation on the Island will be very different…

…but much more peaceful, refreshing and pleasant. It was so, as long as the Coronavirus emergency was with us… and as long as you prefered a hike through forests, over hills and along coastlines, instead of window shopping, dining out and large crowds.

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