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Attractions near Bristol

One to see in Bristol: Pemaquid Point Light

Around Bristol, the places to visit include 9 museums, 2 gardens and a lighthouse. Mapped inside Bristol is one place to visit, and within 40 miles another 15. Day-trippers head 42 mi out to Acadia National Park.

Attractions nearby
34
within 60 miles
The big one
42 mi
Acadia National Park
National park units
2
parks & monuments
Ski areas
1
Camden Snow Bowl
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
National Park · 42 mi east

Acadia National Park

National park in the US state of Maine.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Where they are

At the edge of the map sits Bates College Museum of Art, 39 mi out.

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Orange: Bristol. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

The places, one by one

It starts in town with one place and goes on to 33 within 60 miles.

The places inside Bristol lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Bristol → · Bristol’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Pemaquid Point Light: WestportWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Acadia National Park: Plh1234us, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Portland Head Light: Aniarku, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Knox: Unknown, Public domain · Fort Gorges: Dirk Ingo Franke, CC BY 3.0 · Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum: No machine-readable author provided. Gwernol assumed (based on copyright claims), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Portland Museum of Art: John Phelan, CC BY 3.0 · Funtown Splashtown USA: Paulec252, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: CMBG editor, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Farnsworth Art Museum: Panoramio user MementoMori, CC BY 3.0 · Palace Playland: Andrew Malone, CC BY 2.0 · Frances Perkins National Monument: Robert Reed, NPS employee (per the same source), Public domain · Maine Maritime Museum: Maine Maritime Museum, CC BY 3.0 · Maine State Museum: Stilfehler, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bowdoin College Museum of Art: Charles Follen McKim. Uploaded 28 September 2005 to en:Wikipedia by Hugh Manate, Public domain · Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum: Reroche at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Monument Square: Needsmoreritalin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Colby College Museum of Art: Colby Mariam, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum: Tndou, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Western Promenade: Namiba, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bates College Museum of Art: Xin Deui, CC BY-SA 4.0 · L. C. Bates Museum: W.A. Judge, Public domain · Penobscot Marine Museum: John Smith, Public domain · Viles Arboretum: eddie welker from Laurel, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wiscasset Jail and Museum: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Children's Museum of Maine: Kitetails, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Farnsworth Homestead: Unknown, Public domain · Payson Park: Daderot, Public domain · Redington Museum: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Museum of African Culture: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 4.0

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