Bed and Breakfast Maine namely the Atlantic Birches Inn a Southern Maine Bed and Breakfast would like to share with you some of our favorite u-pick apple orchards in York and Cumberland Counties.

At the apple orchard, you can enjoy a day filled with activities and goodies  for the whole family. Many apple orchards are family-owned with a strong sense of tradition, which makes them a great place to spend a fun filled day with your family and friends. Some activities offered at various orchards include weekend festivals, hayrides, playgrounds and petting zoos.  Some also offer, fresh baked apple donuts,  jams, pies, apple crisps, honey, maple syrup, vegetables, pumpkins, wagon rides and gift shops, U picking apples in Maine is a fun family day event for all ages.

If you visit an orchard that presses its own cider, you may have the opportunity to witness an apple-pressing demonstration.

During a visit to an apple orchard on a warm day, you may want to enjoy a light picnic lunch. Depending on the orchard, they may offer snacks on-site, or you may need to pack your own. Most orchards will have a picnic area or a nice area under the apple trees with majestic views, where you can relax while you eat. After your picnic treat yourselves to a slice of fresh baked apple pie with a scoop of ice cream to help keep everyone cool.

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Blue Angels

Bed and Breakfast Maine namely the Atlantic Birches Inn a Old Orchard Beach ME. Bed and Breakfast  is happy to inform you of the  Boston Portsmouth Air Show.  The United States Navy Blue Angels along with the Brazilian Smoke Squadron will bring their high adrenaline, action packed flying performance to the Boston Portsmouth Air Show at Portsmouth’s International Airport at Pease on  August 28 & 29 for the first time in 20 years.  

Castrol Aviator

There will also be precision aerobatic flying by John Klatt in his Staudacher S-300D, Michael Goulian in his Castrol Aviator Extra 330SC, and Sean D. Tucker in his custom built 400 horsepower Challenger II Biplane.

Staudacher S-300D

The air Show will host ground displays of many different aircraft including today’s military jets, Vintage Warbirds, Bi Planes, and Civilian Aircraft.  Many of the display will allow hands on and walkthroughs.  

Golden Knights

 The U.S. Army Golden Knights Precision Parachute Team will be parachuting in on this years show.

KC-135R Stratotanker

Impressive demonstrations of the mighty roar of the USAF F-15 will be put on, along with the display of power and maneuverability of the F-16 that combines to make this Jet one of the world’s most lethal aircraft, also the Navy’s top fighter and attack aircraft the F/A-18 Super Hornet will captivate the audience with it powerful, precise demonstration of it’s speed and skill.  An also must see demonstration is the KC-135R Stratotanker, the fuel lifeline of the United States Air Force in action in an exciting fly-by.

Fryeburg Fair

Bed and Breakfast Maine namely the Atlantic Birches Inn would like to inform you that it’s that time of year again when Maine’s State Fairs start occurring almost on a weekly bais throughout Maine towns.  We have listed some of our favorite Maine Fairs in Southern and Mid Coast Maine with the dates that they occur  for your enjoyment and hope you visit one of them on your visit here to this Southern Maine Lodging in Old Orchard Beach.  

Maine’s Fairs are more than just corn dogs, caramel apples, popcorn, and cotton candy they are centers of activity with stage shows, performances, 4H exhibits, and farm animal contests such as horse and oxen pulls, pig scrambles, pig calling and pig racing, sheep shearing, best pet tricks and many others. 

Pig Scrambles

 

Sheep Sheering

 

There is also the traditional midway amusements, parades, harness racing, blueberry, apple, pumpkin pie eating and baking contests, whoopie pie competitions, water melon seed spiting, fireworks, woodsmen competitions, carnival games, entertainment, demolition derbies, tractor and truck pull competitions, weigh offs for Maines Great Pumpkin and Squash contest, karaoke contests, cooking demonstrations, shopping for Maine made crafts and lots and lots of food to eat and take home with you. 

Great Pumpkin Contest

Tractor Pull

Midway Ride

Victorian Main House

Bed and Breakfast Maine namely Atlantic Birches Inn invites you to Old Orchard Beach Maine during the fall foliage season where there are miles and miles of scenic roads ,parks and coast line that we can send you on to see trees displaying their fall colors.  Some of our favorite spots to see the autumn fall colors in Southern Maine and Mid Coast Maine are Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, Bradbury Mountain State Park, Mount Agamenticus Park, and Ferry Beach State Park , because of their close proximity to us at the Atlantic Birches Inn a Southern Maine Bed and Breakfast.

Pumpkin Valley Corn Maze

Along the way one can stop at one of the many pick you own apple orchards, and picnic under the apple trees.  Sometimes these orchards are situated atop of or along side the hills and provide spectacular autunm view of the surrouding mountains and valleys.  One can also stop along the many farm stands or pick your own pumpkin patches for autumn\halloween gourds, pumpkins, or maize corn. If you really want to try something fun and dirferent you can try to navigate some of the eloborate corn mazes that farmers have created in their corn fields.

Portland Head Light

During your touring stop and see some of the nearby Must See Maine Lighthouses, Maine Wooden Covered Bridges, 

Hemlock Bridge Fryeburg Maine

Maine Waterfalls and Swimming Holes or nearby Walking and Bicycling Trails. If you get hungry or thirsty along your travels you might want to stop at one of Maine’s Ten Best Lobster Shacks, or take a tour  one of Maine’s Wineries or Micro Breweries and sample some of Maine’s best wines and beers.

Bed and Breakfast Maine the Atlantic Birches Inn is delighed to inform our friends and guests of the following, as a result of the huge success of last years open Lighthouse day  The State of Maine and the U.S Coast Guard and the American Lighthouse Foundation have announced the 2nd annual Maine Lighthouse open house day for twenty-five Maine Lighthouses on Saturday September 18, 2010. Transportation to these lighthouses must be provided by yourself.

Portland Head Light in Fort Williams State Park Cape Elizabeth

Below we have created a map of some of our favorite area lighthouses with directions to help you find and visit them.  We hope you enjoy visiting them and photographing them as much as we have at this Southern Maine Bed and Breakfast.

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Summer is halfway gone and now is the best time to visit Southern Maine’s Premier Beach (Old Orchard Beach) with its seven miles of white sandy beach.

Most people who visit the Atlantic Birches Inn a Southern Maine Bed and Breakfast in Old Orchard beach  spend a few nights here, then travel on to their next destination (to the North or South), for additional day’s.  Old Orchard Beach is about a 90 minute drive North from Boston, and about a three hour drive North to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park.  We also have guests that will spend their entire Getaway or vacation here at our Bed and Breakfast Maine.

While in Old Orchard Beach, we suggest visits to several of the local area  must see Maine Lighthouses, all are easy to visit and provide beautiful views, also dining at one of Maine’s Top Ten Lobster Shacks nestled on Maine Coasts. Wolf neck State park, Bradbury Mountain State park, Scarborough Marsh, and the Rachael Carson Wild Life Preserve offer hiking trails and wonderful vistas, There are many art galleries and museums, antique shops, wooden covered bridges, Waterfalls and Swimming Holes, historic homes, wineries, whale watching, boat tours, any many quaint fishing villages, all worth exploring.

If you have more than a few nights, we can suggest itineraries and travel ideas, for each day of activities based in Old Orchard Beach Maine. Nevertheless, we have many guests say when leaving they had so much fun and there was so much to see and do here, that they will just have to come back again do the things they didn’t get a chance to do or see.

Taking a one week getaway or vacation we could suggest activities around the area that would keep you busy the entire time. However, if you want to see more of Maine, we would suggest spending four or five days here in this Old Orchard Beach Lodging, and then another 3 or 4 days either in the northern pats of Maine (Bar Harbor or Acadia National park) or the Western part of the state where their are lakes and mountains (Baxter State Park or Moose Head Lake) and a good chance of seeing moose in their natural habitat.

Now is the time to firm up those last minute Summer and early Fall Vacation plans!  The traditionally busy weekends are either full or filling fast, but some holidays – Labor Day Weekend – September 3 – 6 and Columbus Day Weekend Oct 8 - 10 for instance still have rooms available.  we look forward to making our home feel like your home away from home.

Bed and Breakfast Maine namely Atlantic Birches inn invites you to Old Orchard Beaches biggest summer event ever that will fill the skies over Southern Maine’s Premier Beach, Old Orchard Beach with twelve colorful hot air balloons! This will be the 1st  Old Orchard Beach Spirit in America Hot Air Balloon Festival as it kicks off on Thursday June 24th and runs through Sunday June 27.

Balloon operators will perform night glows on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at dusk, watch the Balloons inflate, then sit back and watch the colors dance against the night sky. It is a sight to behold.

Early Saturday Morning the 6th annual Christopher Cash Memorial 5K Race and 2.5 Mile Walk starts at the Police\Fire Public Safety Building, later in the day a Real New England Lobster Bake will take place ajacent to the Pier on the Beach along with a Beach Burger Blast Contest for the Best Burger in Town award

For more information contact OOB365 group.

We hope you will enjoy your stay at our  Old Orchard Beach Bed and Breakfast here in Maine..