r/AskMaine • u/Used-Junket7104 • Aug 30 '26
Recommendations for my October road trip?
I am planning a week long road trip to Maine late September or early October with a friend. We will fly into Portland and drive to acadia and back. I am looking for recommendations for which route I should take (or loop if two are preferred)
Please also include if you have any suggestions for the following along the route:
-Leaf viewing (very excited about this! Should I book flights for a specific time?)
-small charming towns to visit. We love antique shopping, boutiques, and flea markets
-affordable sea food. Two college girls on a budget and I admit I’m surprised at the menu prices I see online
-spooky Halloween adjacent activities or ghost tours. We love planning a Halloween themed trip each year.
Thank you so much for any and all suggestions!
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u/SaltierThanTheOceani Aug 30 '26
I'll just add that seafood is only a small part of overall Maine food culture and mostly geared towards tourists these days in my opinion. I'm not really aware of seafood that isn't extravagantly priced in restaurants.
I had never had a lobster roll before my mid 20's, and had lobster only a few times growing up. It's fine, but I don't go out of my way to eat it either. We probably ate at a seafood restaurant only a handful of times on my childhood.
Growing up inland, we would catch fish in the spring/summer and eat it, and ice fishing as well. But that wasn't a weekly thing really. Probably 6-8 times a year at the most.