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Get ready to have some hot — and inexpensive — fun in the city this summer.

What's old is new

Discover Portland, Maine — a revived seaport city that mixes its past with a vivacious present.

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The deal about York

Seaside and dense with activities, Maine's Yorks have plenty of everything.

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Reasons to love summer in Maine

No need to venture far afield this summer — Maine offers warm weather fun for everyone.

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Pearls on the coast

Cheap sleeps on the Maine coast? Amid the luxury hotels, fancy inns, and white-bread chains there are reasonably placed accommodations.

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Budget bonanza

Roam Maine without pinching pennies — or even counting them.

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Plan your Maine getaway See Frommer's-rated area listings and find lodging, attractions, shopping, dining, and more. Find a hotel Bar Harbor Portland Mount Desert Island Blue Hill Peninsula --Castine --Deer Isle --Blue Hill Coastal Maine --Kittery/York --Ogunquit --Kennebunks --Freeport --Bath --Harpswell --Boothbay Harbor --Pemaquid --Monhegan Islands Downeast Coast Inland --Fryeburg --Bethel --Rangeley Lakes --Carrabassett Valley Penobscot Bay --Rockland --Camden --Belfast The North Woods --Bangor --Moosehead Lake

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• Like puddles after a rainfall, so many places for paddling

  A canoe or kayak is a ticket to flat-water fun across northern New England’s ponds, lakes, and waterways. Surfaces range from smooth as glass to roiling white caps. Here are suggestions for various levels of paddlers.

• The deal about York

  YORK, Maine - It’s hard to choose among York’s summer delights. I’m standing between six ancient wooden lanes of candlepin bowling and Short Sands Beach, where little kids are shoveling wet sand into neon green pails for castles that will soon wash away. Singles and couples are ambling along the water’s edge, and clusters of teens eye each other in ...

• Standing the test of time, family-run inns are true Maine

  Authenticity is in, say travel trend analysts. For the real deal, few places can compete with two family-run Maine properties, Seaside Inn & Cottages in Kennebunk and Libby Camps in northern Maine. The Seaside dates from Colonial times, and Libby from the late-19th century. Remarkably, each has remained in the same family for the duration.

• Amid marsh and meadow, a respite near Portland

  FALMOUTH, Maine - Sitting in a wooden blind on the edge of the chilly Presumpscot River estuary it is almost impossible not to see, hear, and even smell the change of seasons.

• The art of being small gives Belfast a new frame

  BELFAST - Some things, fortunately, never change. You can still get a dynamite cinnamon bun at Weaver's Bakery, where my best friend and I sometimes helped his father make doughnuts in the predawn chill before we went out on our paper routes. The sun still rises over the harbor, lighting up the dew on the town's lush lawns. And the ...