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Mysterious Lore and More Walking Tour of Boothbay Harbour

By Mysterious Harbor Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is €26 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview

This walk through Boothbay Harbor's snickleways is a wonderous combination of our town's hidden history, local lore, and unsolved mysteries that will leave you ruminating long after the tour has ended. Your entertaining local guide gives you a lay of the land and all the inside scoop on the harbor’s most mysterious unsolved death, Boothbay Harbor’s very own sea serpent, legendary treasure tales surrounding many of the harbor’s islands, and how two rock stars saved the Boothbay Opera House from becoming a car park.

Activity location

  • Whale Park
    • 30 Commercial Street
    • 04538, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Whale Park
    • 30 Commercial Street
    • 04538, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States

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Mysterious Lore and More Walking Tour of Boothbay Harbour
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
€25.89 x 1 Adult€25.89
Total
Price is €25.89
Until Sat, 9 Aug

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedWalking map of Boothbay Harbour
  • What's includedWhat's included10% off another Mysterious Harbour Tours e-bike or walking tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedMysteries to unravel and legends to trip on!
  • What's includedWhat's includedLocal tasty treat
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Our walking tour includes some steep inclines and uneven surfaces, including pavements, grass, and wooden walkways. Your guide can assist those who need help with inclines and uneven surfaces. We can also accommodate wheelchairs on a custom tour. Please contact us to discuss this option.
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

Whale Park
  • 10m
We’ll begin our tour in the heart of Boothbay Harbour at the town pier with beautiful harbour views of schooners, lobster boats, super yachts, and the harbor’s east side working waterfront. This town has always been a seafaring place, home to sailors and sea captains, fisherman, ship builders, and pirates!
10 Wharf St
  • 10m
What do Queen Elizabeth I, a ring, and Outer Heron Island have in common? Would you believe the claim on a $1 billion-dollar English estate?
Boothbay Harbor Footbridge
  • 10m
Stroll along America’s longest wooden footbridge, enjoying spectacular harbour views, including Maine’s oldest lighthouse on Burnt Island with its long history of keepers—some who never left the island.
Studio 53 Fine Art Gallery
  • 10m
When French antiques started turning up a local thrift shops and yard sales, long whispered tales of a local sea captain’s plot to bring the beleaguered Marie Antoinette to his home in Maine gained traction. When a mystery writer moved into the sea captain’s house, we got the full storey!
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
  • 10m
Originally built as a secret society lodge for the Knights of Pythias, the Opera House was saved from demolition with the help of two famous rock stars. It’s become an internationally renowned music venue and considered the most haunted building in Maine.
Oak Street
  • 10m
Local Wawenock leader Samoset became the first Indigenous person to contact the Europeans and sets an example for us today.
Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library
  • 10m
A mysterious stranger dressed all in black checked into the Hotel Fullerton and headed out for a glimpse of ocean surf. Her identity and untimely end are still unsolved mysteries almost 100 years later.
Whale Park
  • 10m
We wrap up back where we began with some classic seafarer superstitions and accounts of unknown creatures sighted by hundreds of respectable people up and down the Maine and Massachusetts coastline known as The Great New England Sea Serpent.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESWhale Park
    • 30 Commercial Street
    • 04538, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEWhale Park
    • 30 Commercial Street
    • 04538, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States

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