GETTING THERE: Lubec and Eastport, Maine, are roughly 240 miles northeast of Portland, just off of U.S. Route 1. Round-trip nonstop airfares from D.C. to Portland begin at $146 on Independence Air ...

Maine’s fjord-like coast gives Eastport the deepest natural harbor in the lower 48 states. (Valdez, in Alaska, is slightly deeper.) I learned to check myself before saying to Eastporters that ...