Outdoor Activities in and Near Lubec, Maine

Lubec is one of the last places in the busy, over-crowded eastern seaboard where you can get away by yourself in tranquil pine forests, or walk for miles on the salt-sprayed shoreline, exploring and discovering secluded tidal inlets, and the uncrowded pleasures of coastal life.

An increasing number of visitors look to the Cobscook Bay area as the last frontier of peace and untrammeled beauty, of quietness and clear, clean air. There are so many outdoor activities to enjoy in Lubec and the surrounding communities it is impossible to list them all. Here are a few. Which do you delight in?

Birding

On steep rugged headlands, tidal flats, forested hillsides or in grassy fields or bogs.

Cycling

Down quiet country roads or across hilly islands.

Hiking

In a wildlife refuge, on rocky promontories or in grassy meadows, or strolling on the beach at low tide.

Lighthouses

From the much photographed West Quoddy Head Lighthouse and Head Harbour Lightstation (also known as East Quoddy) to the painters' favorite Mulholland Point Light and the locally nicknamed Sparkplug (also known as Lubec Channel Light) to the shy Little River Light, lighthouses abound. View them from land or take a boat tour to see them close up. For boat tours to see the lighthouses, look under whale watching.

US Lighthouse Society Stamps are available at West Quoddy Head Visitors Center, West Quoddy Gifts and the Inn on the Wharf (for the lighthouse boat tours).

Golfing

Overlooking the Passamaquoddy Bay or blueberry barrens, from Campobello, St. Andrews, Calais or Machias, the golfing is beautiful!

Whale Watching

Whether you watch from a lobster boat or a windjammer or even from shore, the whales of Passamaquoddy Bay will keep you entertained.

Eco Tours

Kayaking, going out in a lobster boat, or taking an interpretive intertidal shore or rare arctic bog tour.

Boating & Boat Transportation

Island ferries and information for boaters.