Portland doesn't end at the waterfront. Peaks Island, one of the Casco Bay Islands, is 3 miles east of downtown's shore and about a 15-minute boat ride away. Peaks Island was known as the Coney ...
On my first day here, I kayaked from Portland to Fort Gorges, an imposing Civil War-era granite citadel perched on Hog Island Ledge in the middle of the bay. The fort, which was constructed during the ...