I-95 crosses from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, into an area of Maine so dense with little communities that Mark Twain alleged one couldn't "throw a brick without danger of disabling a postmaster." Three miles over the border, an information center at Kittery provides copious details on the whole state (daily: July-Aug 7am-9pm; Sept 9am-6pm; rest of year 9am-5pm; tel 207/439-1319 or 1-800/639-9645).

If you want to avoid the tolls on the interstate and follow more scenic US-1 instead, you'll soon find yourself in YORK , which was in 1639 the first English city to be chartered in North America. Its seventeenth-century Old Gaol now serves as a museum, commemorating its own past and that of the local Native Americans.

South of Portland

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• Kennebunkport
• Ogunquit

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