and Casco Bay Kayak offers guided tours out of the town of Harpswell. You can also take lessons and rent your own at Maine Island Kayak Co. on Peaks Island. The islands of Casco Bay are most ...

On my first day here, I kayaked from Portland to Fort Gorges, an imposing Civil War-era granite citadel perched on Hog Island Ledge in the middle of the bay. The fort, which was constructed during the ...

Peaks Island was known as the Coney Island of Maine in the 19th century (it was home to amusement parks, theaters and more), but nowadays it feels more like a quaint neighborhood with roughly ...