Visiting Bar Harbor, Maine? Learn the top ten fun facts about Bar Harbor? Bar Harbor is ranked as the eighth most popular summer destination in the United States. It is the home of Acadia National Park, the oldest park east of the Mississippi. Visitors enjoy kayaking, biking, whale-watching, shopping, & Maine lobster.

During the Gilded Age, Bar Harbor was the summer resort of the “rich and the famous,” rivaling Newport, Rhode Island with glamorous hotels and estates of grandeur along the shoreline. These estates were referred to as “cottages,” and were built by many of the wealthiest industrialists, including the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Roosevelts …