Column: I don’t like hiking or the ocean. Then I visited one of Maine’s most famous coastal walks.

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 14, 2026

I’m not much of a hiker. I climbed a few of Maine’s highest mountains in my younger days just to be able to say I did, but any hiking since then had to have trout or something to hunt at the end of the trail. And it may be a tad strange coming from someone born and raised within 30 minutes of the Gulf of Maine, but I’m not a big fan of the ocean. But few coastlines I’ve seen are as scenic as Maine’s. In York County, one of the best-known cliff walks is the Marginal Way in Ogunquit. Anyone visiting the southern Maine coast this summer would not be wasting their time by putting this famous footpath on their to-do list. ~ Al Raychard