Ogunquit Ogunquit, Maine Ogunquit Public Library Ogunquit Public Library Ogunquit is positioned in Maine Ogunquit - Ogunquit Ogunquit /o ekw t/ oh-gun-kwit is a town in York County, Maine, United States.
Ogunquit is part of the Portland South Portland Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Ogunquit, which means "beautiful place by the sea" in the indigenous Abenaki language, was first a village inside Wells, which was settled in 1641.
The first sawmill here was established in 1686, and ship assembly advanced along the tidal Ogunquit River.
Resolving to problematic a safe anchorage, they formed the Fish Cove Harbor Association, and dug a channel athwart territory they purchased to connect Fish Cove with the Josias River.
With a 3 -mile beach of pale sand and dunes forming a barrier peninsula, connected to the mainland in 1888 by bridge athwart the Ogunquit River, the village was identified by artists.
Particularly after 1898, when the Ogunquit Art Colony was established, it was not unusual to see both artists and fishermen working around Perkins Cove.
Marginal Way, a scenic trail, runs along the coast from Perkins Cove to Ogunquit Beach. Ogunquit separated from Wells in 1980 and receives visitors from as far as Australia.
Part of Stephen King's The Stand, presented in 1978, is set in Ogunquit.
Ogunquit was titled America's Best Coastal Small Town in USA Today's 10 Best Readers' Choice 2016. A July 2016 article in Bloomberg cited Ogunquit as one of a several Maine coastal destinations being visited by trendsetters and gentrifiers.
Major airlines' flights to Portland make Ogunquit as convenient as the Hamptons for New Yorkers.
Ogunquit Beach in c.
The Wells-Ogunquit Community School District provides education for students of all ages in the coastal southern Maine suburbs of Wells and Ogunquit.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 15.25 square miles (39.50 km2), of which, 4.18 square miles (10.83 km2) of it is territory and 11.07 square miles (28.67 km2) is water. Ogunquit is drained by the Josias River and Ogunquit River.
Ogunquit's Marginal Way, a 1.25-mile trail with views of the coast, is neatly paved and the treacherous cliffs are, in places, fenced.
The Ogunquit River at high tide in August 2006 The Ogunquit River at low tide that same month.
Ogunquit's beach nearly disappears at high tide.
The Ogunquit River exits the Rachel Carson Preserve on the left and flows into colder waters of the Gulf of Maine According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Ogunquit has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Surf at Ogunquit, Maine by Edward A.
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"Ogunquit, Maine Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
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