Bar Harbor is six hours from Boston, so it’s probably 10 hours drive from NYC.
Bar Harbor and the adjacent Acadia National Park have beautiful mountains, sea cliffs, lakes and dramatic seashore. Many people climb Cadillac Mountain before sunrise, to be among the first people in N. America to see the sunrise.
As with Newport, there are beautiful mansions, since Bar Harbor was the summer home of the Fords, Rockefellers (Nelson Rockefeller was born there), Morgans, Vanderbilts, Carnegies, Astors, and many other rich people.
There are museums and wonderful bicycle trails, walking paths, carriage paths donated by John D. Rockefeller.
There are some spectacular natural wonders, and it is at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, which experiences which has up to a 50 foot difference between low and high tide. The tides at Bar Harbor aren’t that dramatic, but still the tide difference is extremely dramatic.
There’s a town farther north than Bar Harbor named Machias. Though it’s really pronounced Match-Eye-Us, I’ve always loved the highway signs that point to Machias. I’ve always meant to drive up there and try that for vacation – what a perfectly named vacation destination.