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15 Best Things to Do in Falmouth (Maine)

Located in the Cumberland County of Maine, Falmouth is a town of around 11,000 people that is a part of the metropolitan area called “Portland-South Portland-Biddeford.”

As a northern suburb of Portland, it is bordered by Casco Bay, which features one of the largest anchorages in Maine. Falmouth hosts three private golf clubs and the Portland Yacht Club.

Falmouth has been featured in many novels written by Stephen King, including the chilling “Salem’s Lot.”

If you’re heading to this charming town, check out some of the top things to do during your visit.

1. Dine at Orchid Thai restaurant

This is a must-do if you love authentic Thai cuisine. If you have never tried it before, the exquisite flavors will have you coming back for more

The ingredients used for cooking are fresh and the seafood is locally sourced from the docks in Portland. The ambiance is pleasant and intimate prices are reasonable.

2. Grab breakfast at Bernies Foreside

Want to savor a traditional American breakfast? Bernies Foreside is the best place for this in Falmouth. With a convenient location just outside of Portland, there are small shops nearby if you need a bit of retail therapy.

The restaurant is warm, friendly and traditional – perfect for enjoying a relaxing breakfast with family or friends. The menu is varied enough to meet all tastes and requirements, including vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.

With such delicious food, it’s no wonder that this place is always full. Sometimes you might have to wait a bit for a seat, but it will definitely be worth it.

3. Relax at Fabu Salon & Day Spa

Need some time out and pampering? Pay a visit to Fubu Salon & Day Spa. With various options for beauty and relaxation – including massages and a sauna – you will leave feeling truly spoiled.

As soon as you walk into this welcoming establishment you will be hit with the intoxicating scent of essential oils and be treated like a queen (or king!)

4. Catch a play at Footlights Theater

Whether you love theater or are just looking for a way to spend an evening in Falmouth, Footlights Theater is a great option.

The setting is intimate and you can buy drinks – including wine – before the show. The live performances are highly enjoyable and will bring you into a unique and magical world.

5. Get back to nature at the Gilsland Farm Audubon Center

This is the perfect place for a walk. With a beautiful forest, an estuary and ponds, the trails will get you out amongst the natural beauty of the region.

You will also find a charming floral exhibit here and can learn about the many species of birds that frequent the area.

Take a picnic lunch and bring the kids along to enjoy some of the tailored programs offered at reasonable prices.

If you want to leave with a souvenir, the gift shop has a great variety of bird and nature-themed items.

6. Learn to Sail with Capt. Lyman Stuart

If you’ve always wanted to head out on the waters and tackle the big blue sea, here’s your chance! In the middle of Casco Bay, Captain Lyman will give you a master course in sailing and an unforgettable experience.

The schedule is flexible, so you can take the lesson at a time that suits you best. Once you’re learning the ropes with the wind in the sails and the salty breeze in your hair, you’ll wonder why you waited so long to learn.

7. Explore Mackworth Island

Take some time out to recharge with a relaxing wander around this hundred-acre island. It’s the perfect place for a family hike. The views of Casco Bay are stunning, and the trails take you to explore the sandy shorelines and forested areas.

Although Mackworth Island is only small, there are plenty of benches to relax on and swings for the kids to play on. There’s even a charming area forested with mature pine trees, whose scent will take you right back to Christmas.

8. Visit Presumpscot Falls Park

For an enjoyable walk or hike, the Presumpscot Falls Trail offers you an enchanting experience. Although it is only a short trail, it is quite challenging, so a great choice for those wanting a bit of a workout.

The viewpoint of Presumpscot Falls can be found at the end of the trail, very close to the location of the former Smelt Hill Dam, a well-known fishing area.

9. Peruse the shelves at Falmouth Memorial Library

If you are a book lover, don’t miss the small but busy Falmouth Memorial Library. Opened in 1952 it remains the preferred place for avid book readers to this day.

The library has a public access computer room and a large children’s section. There is also free wireless internet access. If you’re interested in learning more about the history of Maine, you’ll find it within this library.

10. Be enchanted at the Maine State Ballet

Intimacy, beauty, dance, and reasonable prices; you can find all this at the Maine State Ballet. If you love watching a show full of dance, energy, costumes, and stories, this is the perfect place to go with family or friends.

All productions are well prepared by dedicated students and professionals devoted to the art of ballet.

11. Marvel at the Falmouth Nature Preserve

This picturesque preserve lies in the surroundings of Falmouth and is another chance to head into the great outdoors. Here, you can wander the trail in search of some of the local wildlife.

The Falmouth nature preserve is an area covering 76-acres near Mill Creek. The trail has a total length of three miles.

Go for a relaxing walk, a challenging hike, or ride a bike while enjoying the beautiful views, the sound of nature, and the fresh air.

12. Visit the Woods Road Heritage Museum

If you are interested in the culture and the history of Falmouth, the best place to go is to the Woods Road Heritage Museum. Here you can find a library of research material about the genealogy of several families that lived in the city.

You are more than welcome to come and visit the museum to use the research materials kept in the library; this is the main center for providing information and resources to locals and visitors.

You will have wireless internet access and, of course, a comfortable workspace to do your research.

13. Pop into the Portland Museum of Art

The Portland Museum of Art is the best regional museum in the country. It has permanent exhibitions and a nationally renowned collection for art lovers.

Among the permanent collections, you will find works of American, European and contemporary art. The Portland Museum of Art offers free school tours, family activities, curator talks, and organized tours of the Winslow Homer Studio.

14. Climb on The Portland Observatory

The Portland Observatory offers a great view of the entire Portland landscape. On each floor, you will find historical exhibits related to the structure of the building.

This tower was built in order to let people know when ships approached the harbor, so they would know that unloading work was available. This is the perfect place to enjoy some great views of the area and to learn more about the history of Portland.

15. Visit the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine

If you are on vacation with your family, bring the kids along to the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine. They will have a lot of fun visiting the computer lab and all the other amazing exhibits.

The staff will take them through various educational and interactive experiences, from which they will learn the beauty of life and art. They will get to drive a fire truck, an ambulance and a tractor, splash around in a stream with plastic fish and turtles, go camping, and so much more.

15 Best Things to Do in Falmouth (Maine):

• Dine at Orchid Thai restaurant
• Grab breakfast at Bernies Foreside
• Relax at Fabu Salon & Day Spa
• Catch a play at Footlights Theater
• Get back to nature at the Gilsland Farm Audubon Center
• Learn to Sail with Capt. Lyman Stuart
• Explore Mackworth Island
• Visit Presumpscot Falls Park
• Peruse the shelves at Falmouth Memorial Library
• Be enchanted at the Maine State Ballet
• Marvel at the Falmouth Nature Preserve
• Visit the Woods Road Heritage Museum
• Pop into the Portland Museum of Art
• Climb on The Portland Observatory
• Visit the Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine

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An osprey sits on its nest on an island off the coast of Harpswell, where passengers get a close-up view of seals, turns and other marine wildlife on the way to Eagle Island. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

April ushers in many returning birds, including the charismatic osprey. This large raptor makes massive stick nests – typically in the vicinity of a body of water, either fresh or salt – that are easily visible and earn special admiration from anyone willing to watch a bird with such a fascinating natural history, especially in regard to nesting. With a recent smattering of questions about their return, as well as nests lost to storms and humans, I wanted to address the full spectrum of osprey nesting.

This 2017 photo from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service motion-activated camera shows an osprey posing at the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP

First, we need to acknowledge the incredible movements that these birds have undertaken. To only reference them as ‘recently returning’ is selling them far too short. While we don’t know exactly where Maine’s ospreys go, there has been more research on ospreys that nest in other parts of New England. Thanks to GPS trackers on individual birds, we can see the paths they take and areas they frequent, often with hour-by-hour accuracy (depending on the tracking device). In the fall, several individuals from Massachusetts have been tracked moving down the East coast of the U.S., then island-hopping across the Caribbean, favoring a path through Cuba and Hispaniola. From there, they make the 400-plus-mile, open-water crossing over the Caribbean Sea before settling into areas from Venezuela through northern Brazil for the winter. This remarkable journey of about 3,000 miles is usually completed in less than three weeks. Even more noteworthy is their spring migration; their route, typically identical but in reverse, can be completed in less than two weeks, the prospects of breeding being a good motivator.

Now that the ospreys are back in Maine, they’ll be returning to sites where they have nested before, a behavior known as having “high site fidelity.” Nests are reused but can be built in one season, with males doing most of the work gathering material and females doing the finer construction and arrangement. One of the coolest things about ospreys is the way they plan for the future: some, especially ones that have a failed nest in one summer, will begin building an alternate nest that can be used in future years. Animal intelligence always seems to surprise us once we know how to measure it. Only recently have we been able to document animals’ perception of time and ability to plan for the future or recall past events, called the mental time travel hypothesis.

This sets the scene for the question we get the most: What do ospreys do when they return and their nest is gone? The quick answer, as you can probably guess now, is they rebuild, find a new spot to build, or move to the auxiliary nest they started last year. It is common for nests to get destroyed naturally, from high winds or heavy snow (we’ve all experienced that recently!). Readers in the greater Portland area may recall the long-present Fore River nest on a piling just across from Northern Light Mercy Hospital that was swept away by an astronomically high tide and strong winds.

An osprey lands on its nest on top of a channel marker in the Sheepscot River near Wiscasset. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer

We also receive a lot of inquiries from folks who observe nests that are removed by humans; worthy to note these are very few but often very public sites. This is where we’ll pause to acknowledge that ospreys, like all native birds in the U.S., are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), which prohibits the “hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, or export of any … bird, or any part, nest or egg.” Permits can be obtained to allow certain activities otherwise prohibited by the MBTA (for example, Maine Audubon has a special permit to possess mounted birds and feathers for educational purposes). Companies, especially those working with public utilities, can also apply for permits, which are reviewed by state and federal agencies, to remove nests if there are concerns about their location and problems with infrastructure.

Unfortunately telephone poles look like great nesting sites to ospreys – they are basically tall dead trees, after all – but such close proximity to electrical lines causes concerns for both the birds and the utilities. Any work to remove or relocate nests is done outside of the nesting season, as no active nests should be disturbed.

It is sometimes hard to find reason in some human-wildlife interactions, especially when it involves removal of a nesting site, but we can thank long-standing protections like the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for preventing this from happening, at least without agency review or facing penalties of violating federal law. It does give me some relief knowing how adaptable wildlife is. It’s also worth remembering that ospreys are incredibly resilient; like the bald eagle, ospreys made an amazing recovery in the post-DDT era with a rebounding population; there are now more than 2,000 nesting pairs in Maine.

Do you have a nature question for Doug? Email questions to [email protected] and visit maineaudubon.org to learn more about birding, native plants, and programs and events focusing on Maine wildlife and habitat. Doug and other naturalists lead free bird walks on Thursday mornings, 7 to 9 a.m., at the Gilsland Farm Audubon Sanctuary in Falmouth.

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