Bar Island

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] This Maine state location article is a stub.