Mount Desert Island Bar Harbor Hostel
We are fortunate to be located in an area where opportunities abound for hiking, biking, canoeing, ocean kayaking, sailing, and whale-watching, among other outdoor pursuits. We enjoy being near the forest, mountains, lakes and the
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Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. As of the 2000 census, it population was 4,820. A port of entry for Bay Ferries from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Bar Harbor is a famous upper-class summer colony in the Down East region of Maine. It is home to the College of the Atlantic, Jackson Laboratory and Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. At the end of each May, the community hosts The Warblers & Wildflowers Festival.