York County — Biddeford, Kennebunk, Wells & Kittery

I-95 Maine Tpk / US-1 / US-202 / Amtrak Downeaster

York County is the southernmost Maine county, bordering New Hampshire at Kittery/Portsmouth. The coastal York County towns form one of the most visited summer tourist destinations in New England. Anchored by **Biddeford** (a former mill city now revitalized with craft breweries and restaurants) and its twin **Saco** (separated by the Saco River, home to Funtown Splashtown USA amusement park), **Old Orchard Beach** (the historic beachfront resort town with a pier and amusement arcade), **Kennebunk** and **Kennebunkport** (the 'Kennebunks' — home of the Bush family compound at Walker's Point), **Wells** (with Wells Beach, Drakes Island, and the Wells Reserve at Laudholm), **York** (with Short Sands and Long Sands beaches, the Nubble Light, and Cliff Walk), **Ogunquit** (the artist colony and beach town with the Marginal Way coastal walk), **Kittery** (Maine's first town, chartered 1647, home of the Kittery outlet shopping district and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Seavey's Island), **Eliot**, **South Berwick** (home of the novelist Sarah Orne Jewett), **Berwick**, **North Berwick**, **Sanford** (the largest inland York County city, home of Sanford Regional Airport), **Alfred** (the York County seat), **Arundel**, **Buxton**, **Hollis**, **Limington**, **Lyman**, **Parsonsfield**, **Shapleigh**, and **Waterboro**. The region is served by the Amtrak Downeaster with stops at Wells and Saco.