Bar Harbor offers great shopping, stores, and unique vacation treasures, including your awesome lobster, ice cream, and locally hand crafted beers and wines.
The Christmas Vacation Shop offers you a wonderful selection of Made in Maine ornaments, Bar Harbor gifts, vacation treasures and New England's largest selection of personalized ornaments in every category and theme to celebrate your special occasion for baby, family, friends, and so much more. Located on 150 Main Street in downtown Bar Harbor in the historic Gull building next to Del Sol and Bark Harbor.
Bar Harbor offers many activities and shopping options, including trips and excursions like whale watching, schooner rides, lighthouse tours, and lobster fishing trips. These allow you to explore other parts of Bar Harbor and the area from the water.
Down on Main Street, you have many options. From locally made handbags and pottery to hemp clothing, candles, the Clockmaker, and glass works, you are sure to find unique pieces in many stores.
One of the great things here is that each store is unique and that you really won't find many franchises or largely commercial businesses. Of course, LLBean is a staple provider of the free Island Explorer shuttle service throughout the Park and has a location in Ellsworth, Maine.
One of the great things about Bar Harbor shopping is that many of the shops, stores, and restaurants are locally owned, managed, and employed with local Maine residents who work, live, and contribute to thte Bar Harbor community. It is the quaint downeast charm that lends to the beauty of Bar Harbor and downeast Maine.