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Private EBike Tour Portland Maine

By Summer Feet Cycling - Day Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$591 per adult
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  • 5h
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Overview

Some cities are best seen from a car window. Portland, Maine is not one of them. On this fully private e-bike tour, it's just your group, a local guide, and five hours of spectacular coastal scenery — with a Maine lobster roll along the way.
Ride through the Old Port's cobblestone waterfront and fishing piers. Climb to Fort Allen Park for sweeping Casco Bay views. Cruise the Eastern Promenade before crossing to South Portland to walk the breakwater to Bug Light, designed by the architect of the US Capitol dome. Continue to Spring Point Ledge — the only lighthouse of its kind you can reach on foot — then Portland Head Light, commissioned by George Washington in 1791. Finish on the Western Promenade, a hidden hilltop park with views to the White Mountains that most visitors never find.
Lunch is a fresh Maine lobster roll at a waterfront spot worthy of the occasion.
No strangers, no set pace — just your group and the best of coastal Maine.

Activity location

  • Old Port
    • Commercial St
    • 04101, Portland, Maine, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • The Portland Encyclepedia
    • 6 Commercial Street
    • 04101, Portland, Maine, United States

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Private EBike Tour Portland Maine

  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00 AM
Price details
NZ$590.93 x 1 AdultNZ$590.93
Total
Price is NZ$590.93
Until Sat, 9 May

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    A Lobster Roll lunch from Bite into Maine
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Class 1 low -step e-bike
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge

Know before you book

  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Old Port

  • 10m
Ride through the heart of Portland's most iconic area, where cobblestone streets wind past 19th-century brick buildings, working fishing piers, and the salt-scented waterfront of Casco Bay

Fort Allen Park

  • 15m
Ride through the heart of Portland's most iconic area, where cobblestone streets wind past 19th-century brick buildings, working fishing piers, and the salt-scented waterfront of Casco Bay

Eastern Promenade (Pass by)

The Eastern Promenade is Portland's crown jewel — a sweeping, 68-acre park that follows the ridgeline of Munjoy Hill with uninterrupted views of Casco Bay and its constellation of islands. On a bike, it's pure magic: a dedicated trail runs along the water's edge, with the bay glittering below and the skyline of Portland behind you. Watch the Casco Bay Lines ferry chug out to the islands, spot kayakers picking their way along the shoreline, and feel the kind of sea breeze that makes you understand why people fall in love with coastal Maine. At the bottom, a small beach and boat launch sit tucked beneath the bluff — a side of Portland most visitors never find.

Bug Light Park

  • 20m
Cross the bridge to South Portland and you'll find one of the most charming spots on the entire Maine coast — Bug Light Park, home to the petite Portland Breakwater Lighthouse that's been guiding ships into harbour since 1875. At just 26 feet tall, Bug Light punches well above its weight: its six elegant Corinthian columns were inspired by ancient Greek architecture, designed by the same architect who built the dome of the US Capitol. Standing at the water's edge, you get a sweeping panorama back across the harbour — the Portland skyline, Casco Bay islands, and Fort Gorges all laid out before you. The park itself carries a quieter history too: during WWII, an estimated 30,000 people worked here building Liberty ships South Portland, and a memorial on the grounds tells that storey. It's a place that sneaks up on you — small in scale, enormous in character.

Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse

  • 30m
Ledge Lighthouse, sitting at the end of a 900-foot granite breakwater that juts straight out into Portland Harbour. It's the only caisson-style lighthouse in the United States that visitors can walk out to Springpointledgelight, and the walk itself is half the experience: the harbour opens up on both sides, with Portland's skyline to the north and the open bay stretching south towards Cape Elizabeth. The lighthouse was built in 1897 after years of shipwrecks on the treacherous ledge below — by that point, Portland Harbour was one of the busiest on the East Coast Springpointledgelight, and the toll of lost ships had finally forced the government's hand. Standing out on the breakwater with the waves crashing below and the city skyline framed across the water, it's one of those moments that feels genuinely, unmistakably Maine.

Portland Head Light

  • 1h
Portland Head Light is Maine's oldest lighthouse and one of the most photographed spots in all of New England — and when you arrive by bike along the Cape Elizabeth coast, it earns every bit of that reputation. Commissioned by George Washington and completed in 1791 Visit Portland Maine, the white conical tower rises 80 feet above a dramatic headland where the Atlantic crashes against the rocks below. The setting is almost absurdly beautiful — rugged cliffs, ocean stretching to the horizon, the tower gleaming against whatever the Maine sky decides to offer that day. The surrounding 90-acre Fort Williams Park adds to the magic, with crumbling Civil War battery ruins, a cliff walk trail, and food trucks serving lobster rolls steps from the water. Edward Hopper painted it in 1927 Wikipedia, and one look tells you exactly why. This is the postcard, the screensaver, the moment your guests will be texting home about.

Western Promenade Park

  • 20m
For a completely different side of Portland, the Western Promenade offers one of the city's best kept secrets — a sweeping hilltop park overlooking the Fore River valley, with views that stretch all the way to the White Mountains of New Hampshire on a clear day. Designed in 1905 by the Olmsted Brothers — the same firm behind Boston's Emerald Necklace US National Park Service — the park was conceived for exactly this kind of unhurried exploration. Pedaling the ridge, you pass some of Portland's grandest Victorian mansions, their column-lined facades and gingerbread trim lining the bluff in an almost unbroken row. It's a quieter, more residential Portland than the waterfront — the city at its most elegant and lived-in. Come at sunset and the sky behind the mountains turns extraordinary. Locals know it; most tourists never find it.

Location

Activity location

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    Old Port
    • Commercial St
    • 04101, Portland, Maine, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    The Portland Encyclepedia
    • 6 Commercial Street
    • 04101, Portland, Maine, United States

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