Waves crash against a rocky shore beneath a picturesque lighthouse as seabirds soar and dive overhead. Ancient mountains rise above the rugged, indented coastline, rounded by the ages and covered with ...

Something about the bracing smell of salt water, the plaintive cry of gulls, and the crashing of waves against rocky shores opens all my senses to the joy at hand: exploring Maine’s famous coastline ...

Miles Howard is a regular Globe Ideas contributor and author of the Substack newsletter Mind the Moss. I first saw Acadia National Park’s iconic oceanside cliffs years ago through the windshield of a ...