Travel Idea

If Bangor is a well-kept secret, then let’s spread the word

Debbra Szafryk 3 years ago 3 min read

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According to Journey+Leisure magazine, Bangor is Maine’s “best-stored key.” With any luck , the key is previously out. But convey to all your mates, just to be confident.

Though we could quibble with the idea that a lot of people today really do not know about how excellent Bangor is, we’re not likely to argue with the normal premise of the piece: The Queen Town is pretty wonderful. And the extra individuals who comprehend this, the much better.

Writing for Travel+Leisure, Erinne Magee describes Bangor as “a position for tourists looking for superior foods, regional beer, and a blossoming music and arts scene without the need of the crowds.” Once more, tricky to argue with that (even though it depends on your definition of a “crowd”). And it’s tough to find fault in Magee’s short list of instructed sites to go and items to do listed here.

You simply cannot go incorrect with a handle from Frank’s Bakery. Nocturnem is a fantastic area to seize a consume. The City Forest has received national recognition, and for excellent reason.

Our only grievance is that there are also a lot of excellent areas here to incorporate in a person record — and which is not truly a complaint. It’s just a pleased actuality.

Way too usually, items like this by countrywide shops come to feel like anyone parachuting in during the summer time months for drive-by, superficial protection. In this case, it doesn’t seem to be that way. It may perhaps help that Magee is based in Maine (her producing has also appeared in the Bangor Daily News).

If we may perhaps, we’d add a several other strategies. And once more, these are not meant to be in depth: Wicked Brew makes a wicked fantastic breakfast wrap. The Waverly continues to prove that dive bars never die, and even has some artwork from BDN cartoonist George Danby on the wall. And though municipal golfing programs can from time to time be in tough condition, Bangor’s is a gem — and as well known as it is been in many years. It even turns into a community of cross place ski and snowshoe trails in the winter season.

As Magee mentions, one more 1 of Bangor’s strengths is its central site and accessibility to other wonderful places in Maine. Along with all the possibilities in the metropolis limits, it is a gateway for sorts to many areas of the state.

“Bangor is the best foundation camp for guests who want to taste, scent, and sense all that Maine presents,” Tim Cotton, an writer and not too long ago retired lieutenant from the Bangor Law enforcement Office who established the beloved Duck of Justice, told the travel magazine. When it comes to realizing Bangor and the surrounding space, evidently Cotton is no quack.

So no matter whether somebody is a cruise ship passenger searching for a additional “genuine” Maine working experience, a state governor in Maine for a nationwide conference, or even a member of the national media blending perform and holiday vacation, we hope Bangor is on their itinerary. And we simply cannot assistance but feel yet again about our much-cherished prediction from Oliver Frost in 1869.

“The time might quickly arrive when the a few fantastic cities of North The united states — Bangor, New York, and San Francisco — shall be associates of the wealth, population, intelligence, and business of the eastern, central and western divisions of our nation,” Frost reported.

Bangor could possibly not be greatly regarded just one of the “three great metropolitan areas of North The us,” but it is a fantastic town. Let’s not preserve that a secret.