Giant trolls attracted record visitors to Boothbay botanical gardens

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 19, 2022

Five giant trolls, the tallest of which tops 30 feet, and renewed interest in the outdoors amid the COVID-19 pandemic brought a record number of visitors to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens last year, according to a new economic impact report. The 325-acre tourist attraction in Boothbay — New England’s largest botanical garden, with more than 100,000 live plants — brought in 336,400 visitors in 2021, the most in any year since it opened in 2007, with about three-quarters of them coming from Maine. They spent about $15.2 million while visiting the region.