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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  I'm interested to see the responses to this thread.  We are also planning to go to Acadia this summer, and it's our first time.  We are going to overnight someplace on the way up, and on the way back we are planning to stay a few days to a week in a second beachy location.  We are considering Rhode Island for this.

The posts about the drive are giving me pause, but I'm hoping[b] two days (in each direction) of 6-7 hour drives [/b]can't be that bad. Can it?

OP, we decided not to stay in Boston as part of this trip because of some of the reasons listed.  Our youngest is also four, and I think she has another couple of years to go before she gets very much out of city vacations.  [/quote]

It will depend on exactly where you are coming from, but I think it will take longer than that.
We came from Northern VA and instead of going up I95,we took I81 as far as Scranton and then cut across.  Yes, this added miles to our drive, but it also allowed us to miss the majority of tolls and traffic, which was so much less stressful.
We drove all the way to Maine the first day (I think it was Brunswick?  I can't remember for sure) so we would have a shorter drive the 2nd day.   We were camping and knew we wanted to get there early enough in the day to set up our tent.[/quote]

We are in Maryland, but I looked at Arlington to Scranton then Scranton to Bar Harbor on Google Maps.  It looks as though the route you describe is around 4.5 hours to Scranton then 9 hours to Bar Harbor.  Or is that optimistic?

We are okay with tolls and with driving through New York.  The total I'm getting for our preferred route is approximately 12 hours.  It's possible that I'm getting the most optimistic estimate, though!  All of these suggestions to fly then rent a car are making me reconsider.[/quote]

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