Resort town with a three and a half-mile beach of pale sand and dunes

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Pets allowed

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Spring, Summer, Fall

Rating:

★ 5.0

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Overview

Ogunquit is a resort town in York County, Maine. Ogunquit, which means "beautiful place by the sea" in the indigenous Abenaki language, was first a village within Wells, which was settled in 1641.

It includes a tidewater basin called Perkins Cove, spanned by a manually operated draw footbridge. The community has a three and a half-mile beach of pale sand and dunes forming a barrier peninsula, connected to the mainland in 1888 by bridge across the Ogunquit River. Marginal Way, a scenic trail dating back to the 1920s, runs along the coast from Perkins Cove to Ogunquit Beach.

Ogunquit was named America's Best Coastal Small Town in USA Today's 10 Best Readers' Choice 2016.

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