A sand and gravel bar exposed only a couple of hours at low tide connects Bar Island to Bridge Street in Bar Harbor. At low tide visitors often walk across, or park cars on the exposed bar. However, on the island side in front of a locked gate, only a small area fringed with dense sea rose bushes is elevated enough to provide safe parking. Visitors have been known to return from a hike to find their cars submerging[1] and themselves stranded until the tide recedes.[2][3]
The town of Bar Harbor has repeatedly attempted to obtain jurisdiction over this island connected to it by the eponymous bar, but a 1903 court decision confirmed that the distant town of Gouldsboro retains jurisdiction under its 1798 articles of incorporation.[4]
^Bar Harbor police report person stranded on Bar Island Bar Harbor Times Soup, Sept. 29, 2010
^Great Maine Vacations: Bar Harbor (suggesting a "local boat goes out later in the day to check for stranded visitors"--which no longer is the case.)
^McLane, Charles B.; McLane, Carol Evarts (1997). Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast. Tilbury House & Island Institute. pp. 131 of Vol II. ISBN0-88448-184-0.
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