Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island Places

Bass Harbor

Getting Here and Around

Maine State Ferry Service. From Bass Harbor the Maine State Ferry Service operates a ferry, the Captain Henry Lee, carrying both passengers and vehicles to Swans Island (40 minutes, round-trip $17.50 per person and $49 per car with driver) and Frenchboro (50 minutes, round-trip $11.25 per person and $32.25 per car with driver). The Frenchboro ferry doesn't run daily; there's also a passenger-only trip on a smaller boat (same price) from April through November. Excursion rounds trips (you don't get off the boat) are $10. 45 Granville Rd., Bass Harbor, ME, 04653. 207/244-3254. www.maine.gov/mdot/msfs/.

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