Why this ride
Working harbors, rocky coves and classic Maine town centres. The road: US-1 and coastal roads. Distance and riding time are estimates from the checkpoints until the road is measured on this page.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Penobscot Bay Harbors
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 85 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 29
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Belfast
2. Camden
Camden is the harbor town that makes Maine look as good as it does in the brochures. The Camden Hills rise right behind the town, with Mount Battie, about eight hundred feet high, standing over the inner harbor, and Penobscot Bay lies in front, dotted with islands and sailing vessels. Windjammers, the old-style schooners that take passengers on multi-day cruises, fill the waterfront in summer, their masts and rigging a forest against the sky.
3. Rockland
4. Damariscotta
Damariscotta is oyster country, and it has been for a very long time. Along the banks of the Damariscotta River, huge heaps of discarded oyster shells, some of them thirty feet deep, mark the places where Native peoples feasted for over two thousand years, and these middens are among the largest on the Atlantic coast. Today the river is home to a thriving aquaculture industry, and the oysters are among the best in the country, served on the half shell in a half-dozen restaurants.