Bar Harbor: Historic Self-Guided Audio Guide Tour – Bar Harbor, Maine

EXPERIENCE

Start by downloading the Action Tour Guide app, which will function as your personal tour guide, audio tour, and map. NOTE: This 1+ mile-long tour covers the essentials of Bar Harbor in 1-2 hours.

Explore Bar Harbor with your app that will function as your personal guide, audio tour, and map all in one. Enjoy animated videos that allow you to see snapshots from different centuries and interior rooms that you otherwise would not be able to see.

Begin your tour at Bar Harbor Pier and hear about Bar Harbor s early days as a fishing town and its transformation during the Gilded Age. Cross a bridge to the untouched Bar Island. Enter the West Street Historic District, with its Gilded Age homes.

At the Abbe Museum, find a collection dedicated to the Native Wabanaki of the region. Stroll down Main Street, loaded with shops, restaurants, and cafes. Head to the waterfront Shore Path and encounter a strange landmark left in Bar Harbor during the Ice Age.

See the personal tennis court-turned-public park which serves as an example of how Bar Harbor has transformed since the Gilded Age. See the Bar Harbor Inn, established in 1887. Your tour concludes just beyond the inn, right where you began.

HIGHLIGHTS

Explore the oceanside town of Bar Harbor at your own pace with an audio guide
Dive into the Gilded Age history of some of America s wealthiest families
Admire the town’s lavish and beautifully preserved Gilded Age architecture
Enjoy a tour developed by local guides & narrated by professional voice artists
Learn how this little town went from a remote outpost to a vacation destination

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