About Boothbay Harbor
Set in the southern part of Maine, Boothbay Harbor is a small unincorporated community.
Boothbay Harbor holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.85 square miles.
📰 Boothbay Harbor News Today
Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.
What Makes Boothbay Harbor Unique
- The only place in America named Boothbay Harbor — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
- An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
- Positioned in southern Maine, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.
Why People Love It Here
- Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
- Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
- Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 13 miles.
📍 Neighborhoods in Boothbay Harbor
Click a neighborhood to see it on the map.
🍽️ Where to Eat in Boothbay Harbor
Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · click a restaurant to read or write reviews.
🎡 Fun Things to Do
- Boothbay Railway Village Museum · Theme park
- The Thompson Ice House Harvesting Museum · Museum
- Antique Auto Museum · Museum
- Antique Engine Display · Attraction
- Arbor Garden · Attraction
- Balmy Days Cruises · Attraction
- Black River Gallery · Art gallery
- Boothbay Harbor Schooners · Attraction
- Boothbay Region Art Foundation Gallery · Art gallery
- Boothbay Region Historical Society · Museum
Attractions mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.
🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Boothbay Harbor
- 🏞️ Reid State Park · National Park reviews ★
- 🏞️ Fort Baldwin State Historic Site · National Park reviews ★
- Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens · Garden reviews ★
- Gregory Hiking Trail · Nature reserve reviews ★
- Indiantown Island Preserve · Nature reserve reviews ★
- Lobster Cove Meadow Preserve · Nature reserve reviews ★
- Ocean Point Preserve · Nature reserve reviews ★
- Plummer Point Preserve · Nature reserve reviews ★
- Popham Beach State Park · Nature reserve reviews ★
- Porter Preserve · Nature reserve reviews ★
- Saunders Preserve · Nature reserve reviews ★
- Schoolhouse Pond Preserve · Nature reserve reviews ★
Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.
🏫 Schools in Boothbay Harbor
- Boothbay Region Elem School
- Boothbay Region High School
- Bristol Consolidated School
- Georgetown Central School
- South Bristol Elementary School
- Southport Central School
Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.