Midcoast Maine is central to the best of Maine. For many visitors, the midcoast area offers everything they seek in a getaway: quiet riverways and uncluttered seashores, inland forests, lakes, and meadows, extensive outdoor recreation, pristine fishing villages and seasonal artist colonies, and charming towns. For others, it is the point of departure - the place to call home while taking in some of the most interesting and compelling sights and events in Maine, only a day trip away.