On my first day here, I kayaked from Portland to Fort Gorges, an imposing Civil War-era granite citadel perched on Hog Island Ledge in the middle of the bay. The fort, which was constructed during the ...

Portland doesn't end at the waterfront. Peaks Island, one of the Casco Bay Islands, is 3 miles east of downtown's shore and about a 15-minute boat ride away. Peaks Island was known as the Coney ...