I would say Bar Harbor, Maine. Besides being a delightful seacoast town with harbor tours, great seafood and having the Bluenose Ferry boat sailing regularly to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, there is right outside of town the entrance way to Acadia National Park with high Cadillac Mountain overlooking Frenchmen's Bay and Thunderhole where the sea pounds into a rocky cavern to make the soubd of thunder and miles of woodland trails.
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