Maine coast road trip: Portland to Acadia National Park

Up the Maine coast on US 1, from Kennebunkport and Portland past Boothbay Harbor and Camden to Bar Harbor and Acadia.

Stops
5
Nights
5
Driving
208 mi
Open this trip in the planner

Free, no account needed. Change any stop or night once it’s open.

A white lighthouse and keeper's house on a rocky headland with waves breaking below.

The route by road

Point at a leg of the route, or tap it, for its drive time.
12345

The stops, in order

  1. Kennebunkport, Maine

    A stop on the way

    Coast village at the south end of the drive.

  2. 35 min · 28 mi from Kennebunkport

    Portland, Maine

    1 night

    Old Port and Portland Head Light.

  3. 1 h 10 min · 58 mi from Portland

    Boothbay Harbor, Maine

    1 night

    Harbor town on a peninsula off US 1.

  4. 58 min · 46 mi from Boothbay Harbor

    Camden, Maine

    1 night

    Harbor below Mount Battie.

  5. 1 h 41 min · 76 mi from Camden

    Bar Harbor, Maine

    2 nights

    Gateway to Acadia National Park and Cadillac Mountain.

Day by day

5 days with the nights above. Drive times are for a car without traffic; a day over six hours is flagged.

  1. Day 1: Kennebunkport to Portland

    Night in Portland

    35 min · 28 mi

  2. Day 2: Portland to Boothbay Harbor

    Night in Boothbay Harbor

    1 h 10 min · 58 mi

  3. Day 3: Boothbay Harbor to Camden

    Night in Camden

    58 min · 46 mi

  4. Day 4: Camden to Bar Harbor

    Night in Bar Harbor

    1 h 41 min · 76 mi

  5. Day 5: In Bar Harbor

    No driving
Open this trip in the planner

More road trips like this

All 23 road trips

Photo: Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. “Portland-Head-Lighthouse” by Rapidfire, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. “Kancamagus Scenic Byway - Fall Foliage Along the Kancamagus Highway” by Unknown author, Public domain. “Skyline Drive overlook view” by APK, CC BY-SA 4.0. “Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys aerial (2003)” by United States Department of Transportation, Public domain.