Departure Information:
5:00 AM –      Elite Coach Parking Lot – 1685 W Main St, Ephrata
(please park in the spaces behind the office building)
5:45 AM –      Lancaster Shopping Center – 1515 Lititz Pike, Lancaster
(please park in the lot that is along the Oregon Pike side of the old A.C. Moore building)

Loading will begin 15 minutes prior to departure time.

Return Information:
6:30 PM (Approx.) – Lancaster Shopping Center
7:15 PM (Approx.) – Elite Coach

 Itinerary, inclusions, timing, and pricing subject to change without notice. 

Activity Level: To fully participate in this tour, it may require extended amounts of walking. There may be steps, inclines, uneven surfaces, or extended periods of standing. Participants with physical limitations should take this into consideration.

Day 2: Monday, September 21

Breakfast is at the resort this morning.

Our first stop will be at Maine Line Products for a sample of their homemade fudge and a chance to purchase Maine-made souvenirs.

Then, we will tour the new interactive Maine Mineral & Gem Museum where mineral specimens, gemstones, and historical items tell the story of Maine’s mining history. We will also get to see some rare meteorite specimens and hold rocks from the Moon and Mars!

Lunch on our own at a local Bethel restaurant.

We will return to the resort for free time before regrouping later in the afternoon for a guided two-hour moose-watching tour at Grafton Notch State Park. Stop for foliage photos at mountain overlooks and a local covered bridge. Our guide will select locations where you are likely to spot a moose.

Dinner will be at the resort this evening, followed by a campfire with S’mores.

Day 4: Friday, September 23

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel this morning before a two-hour Nature Cruise. Search for eagles, porpoises, seals, and other marine mammals and birds while sightseeing on Frenchman’s Bay. Pass by Egg Rock Lighthouse and the breathtaking scenery of coastal Maine and Acadia National Park.

Next, enjoy a Box Lunch before meeting our local guide for an afternoon tour of Acadia National Park. Here, in the first national park founded east of the Mississippi, we will see 9 mountains over 1000 feet high, stone bridges, lakes, ponds, trails, and carriage roads. We will ride along the entire Park Loop Road and wind our way to the top of Cadillac Mountain for stunning views. Enjoy crashing waves at Thunder Hole and visit Sieur De Mont Springs Wild Gardens of Acadia. Learn all about the rich and famous visitors who built summer “cottages” in Bar Harbor.

After saying goodbye to our guide, we head to a unique Maine entertainment experience; the Great Maine Lumberjack Show. Witness the “Olympics of the Forest”. Lumberjacks and loggers will engage in a traditional “logging camp competition,” just like they did over 100 years ago in the Maine woods. Listen to the big crosscut saws singing in the forest. Watch the thrilling lumberjack sports of wood chopping, sawing, tree climbing, ax throwing, and everyone’s favorite… log rolling! All exhibited with a modern twist, mixed with history, comedy, and audience participation.

We return to the Atlantic Oceanside Hotel for your second night and feast on another wonderful dinner before enjoying the rest of your evening at leisure.

Day 5 – Thursday, September 24, 2026

Enjoy an included breakfast at the hotel this morning before traveling to Wiscasset.

Lunch today will be at The Maine Tasting Center. Our host will meet the group and share some fun facts about Maine foods. Restrooms and Maine-made products are on site. Head to the tasting room for one free beverage; your choice of soda, wine, beer, cider, mead or kombucha.

We will travel a short distance to Damariscotta, the oyster capital of New England to enjoy a Damariscotta River Cruise. This special aquaculture outing includes an oyster farm and seal watching.

Next, we travel south to Ogunquit, Maine – “Beautiful place by the Sea” for two nights. Enjoy a welcome reception upon arrival at the Ogunquit River Inn. The hotel features an outdoor heated pool. Enjoy the salty ocean breeze from the shoreline behind the hotel. Large decks look out on a waterfall and shore birds forage along the marsh.

En route to dinner we will make a stop for a photo of Maine’s southernmost lighthouse, the Nubble Light in Cape Neddick near York Beach. From Nubble Light we will also spot the infamous Boon Island Lighthouse, located just offshore.

This evening, we will have a Maine lobster dinner with alternative choice for landlubbers.

Day 6 – Friday, September 25, 2026

Breakfast this morning at the hotel before traveling to Kennebunkport.

Meet your local guide for a narrated tour of Kennebunkport and Kennebunk; two shipbuilding villages. Hear the history and folklore as you drive past the beaches. Learn the legend of the “Wedding Cake House” and maritime history of sea captains and shipbuilders. You will travel through the port and along Ocean Avenue and see the Bush summer home at Walker’s Point. Make a stop at the Franciscan Monastery with its seaside shrines and gardens.

Free time for shopping and lunch on your own in Dock Square. Your guide will point out restaurants. After lunch, experience authentic lobster harvesting along the rocky coast on a Maine Lobstering cruise. Learn how lobstermen make their living as they haul traps from the sea on board a special narrated lobstering tour boat.

Return to the hotel to freshen up for your included dinner at a local favorite this evening.

Day 7 – Saturday, September 26, 2026

Breakfast is at the hotel this morning before departing home.

Today we travel home from Ogunquit, ME to Lancaster, PA making rest stops along the way. Lunch is on your own at a lunch rest stop.