The best small town to visit in the USA this year is in Maine

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Guests really feel like they “stepped out of actual life and walked into the pages of a storybook.”

For vacationers craving a small city over a giant metropolis, it doesn’t get any higher than a Maine vacation spot alongside Frenchman Bay, in accordance with U.S. Information & World Report.

The publication lately named Bar Harbor the very best small city in America throughout its 2023-2024 Greatest Holidays Rankings. The Mount Desert Island city topped the checklist for the previous two years.

The 25 cities on the checklist have a inhabitants lower than 50,000, loads of eating places, points of interest, and “picture-perfect pure magnificence,” in accordance with U.S. Information & World Report.

U.S. Information & World Report wrote the next about Bar Harbor:

“Famously referred to as the gateway to Acadia Nationwide Park, Bar Harbor, Maine, has loved a centuries-long repute as a scenic respite that mixes all the very best qualities of the state. Its placement alongside Frenchman Bay signifies that vacationers are spoiled with soothing water views left and proper, in addition to craggy coastlines that look straight out of a panorama portray. Plus, it’s the proper leaping off level for a few of the finest whale watching excursions in Maine. Not solely that, however the city fosters a particular form of attraction that makes it really feel as in case you’ve stepped out of actual life and walked into the pages of a storybook. Although, the abundance of finger-licking native lobster will definitely snap you again into actuality in the easiest way potential. That is the form of place you go to to reset and get again to marveling within the fundamentals: taking a pleasant lengthy stroll, watching the water sway because the day fades and having fun with tasty native grub. Bar Harbor is ideal for all of that.”  

— U.S. Information & World Report

4 different New England cities made the checklist:

• Nantucket ranked No. 4
• Martha’s Winery ranked No. 18
• Stowe, Vermont, ranked No. 19
• Kennebunkport, Maine, ranked No. 21

Bar Harbor additionally ranked No. 6 on the publication’s checklist of finest low-cost holidays within the U.S.; No. 7 for finest summer season holidays within the U.S.; No. 18 for finest place to go to within the U.S.; and No. 20 for finest household trip within the U.S.

Earlier this yr, Bar Harbor was named among the many finest small cities in New England by USA As we speak readers and the most effective small cities for a summer season trip by TripsToDiscover.com.

Try the checklist of the very best small cities in America.