Bar Harbor is a town on
Mount Desert Island in
Hancock County,
Maine,
United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 4,820. A
port of entry for
Bay Ferries from
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Bar Harbor is a famous
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. Bar Harbor is home to the largest parts of
Acadia National Park.
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