This Maine island simply ranked increased than Nantucket on a nationwide checklist

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The island is house to Acadia Nationwide Park.

Maine’s Mount Desert Island is flexing its allure, rating increased on this 12 months’s Journey + Leisure checklist of prime islands than Massachusetts’ iconic Nantucket.

Mount Desert Island ranked No. 4 on the publication’s checklist of 15 favourite islands within the continental U.S. for 2023, launched Tuesday as a part of its annual World’s Greatest Awards.

The vacation spot, house to Acadia Nationwide Park and Bar Harbor, is the most important island off the coast of Maine, and the park’s Cadillac Mountain is the best level alongside the North Atlantic seaboard. Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island’s largest group, gives eating places, galleries, buying, and out of doors adventures that embody boating, mountaineering, and biking.

Readers scored the islands primarily based on their worth, pure points of interest/seashores, actions/sights, eating places/meals, and folks/friendliness, in response to the publication.

Nantucket, full of gorgeous seashores, seaside eating places, cobblestone streets, and quaint retailers, got here in at No. 12. The No. 1 island is Golden Isles in Georgia.

Mount Desert Island acquired a rating of 86.77, and Nantucket acquired a rating of 82.48. The very best rating, by Golden Isles in Georgia, was a 92.15 and the bottom rating, by the Outer Banks in North Carolina, was an 81.61.

Practically 165,000 Journey + Leisure readers accomplished a 2023 journey survey between October 24, 2022, and February 27, 2023, to find out the outcomes of this 12 months’s World’s Greatest Awards, which spotlight the 12 months’s prime resorts, islands, cities, cruise strains, airports, and extra.

The outcomes are featured within the August 2023 concern of Journey + Leisure. 

Try the checklist of 15 favourite islands within the continental U.S. for 2023.