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Places worth the detour in Maine

Detourmap lists 31 places in Maine, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Acadia National Park. 25 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature23 Archaeological8
Places
31
Oldest
Machias Seal Island 1832
Little known
25 of 31
Share of United States
1%

Maine 31

All 31, best known first.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Washington258 Wyoming198 Oregon187 Utah179 Colorado154 Arizona144 New York137 Florida107 Texas106 North Carolina104

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Maine?

Acadia National Park, 20th century. National park in the US state of Maine. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Maine?

31: 23 nature & landscapes and 8 archaeological & historic sites. 25 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Maine?

Machias Seal Island, dated to 1832. 9 of the 31 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Maine here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Maine if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Maine is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.