WALKIES: Best out of the way small town, Lubec, Maine

On the first annual Photowalks awards episode, we gave the “Walkie” for best out of the way small town to Lubec, Maine.

Lubec is the easternmost town in the contiguous United States—and is the closest continental point to Africa. First settled in 1785 and officially incorporated in 1811, Lubec offers about 97 miles of quiet, rugged Maine shoreline.

The highlight is the gorgeous candy-striped lighthouse where at the Quoddy Head State Park, you’ve got the only true red and white candy stripe lighthouse in the United States.

There are two other candy stripe lighouses, but they’re in black and white in St. Augustine, Florida, and Cape Hattas, North Carolina. Lubec is a 4-hour drive from Portland, the biggest city in the state, and two hours from Bar Harbor, the coastal town near Acadia National Park, but well worth the drive.