This is a great place to buy your own island if this has been one of your fantasies, but don't expect to find many beaches - and the water is frigid. Throughout northern New England, you will find far more people looking at the water than actually swimming in it. Beaches are rare along Maine's long coast, and where present are generally small by East Coast standards. In northern Maine, wildlife abounds, and the Best Wilderness Beach in the Northeast is Jasper Beach, close to the Canadian border. The preponderance of the sandy beaches are found along the southernmost 30 miles of the Maine coast, but Sand Beach in Acadia National Park in the north is really special and one of my favorites.
Sand Beach is a small beach, bounded by rocky headlands near the village of Bar Harbor.
This pocket-type beach has no obvious source of sand as the granitic rock is very resistant to wave attack. Other attractions at Acadia National Park include Cadillac Mountain, which at 1,532 feet is the highest point on the North American coastline. Bar Harbor is also well worth a call, and I still remember my first visit when I was anxious to order one of those famed Maine lobsters. I asked the lady at the hotel lobby where was the best place to order a lobster dinner. She was right.