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Town in Maine, United States
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Bethel is a town in Oxford County (Maine). It is near the White Mountain National Forest and home to Sunday River ski resort. Outward Bound and Gould Academy are also here.
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A five-mile (8-km) self-guided tour into the White Mountain National Forest that you can read and print from this link
The Appalachian Trail passes through this rugged landscape used to hike, fish, hunt, and in the winter snowmobile and cross-country ski. Breathtaking views from Old Speck Mountain.
131 trails and 18 lifts. Large resort with summer alpine activities and always something happening.
Robert Trent Jones, Jr. course with 18 holes, par 72, 7,130 yards, CR75.2, slope 146. $95, cart included.
Par 72, 6,663 yards, CR71.3 Slope 131.
A cozy café-restaurant serving up pastries and a wide selection of coffee and hot drinks throughout the day, and then global cuisine at night. The market, which is next door, is filled with groceries, coffee and wine from around the globe.
Great selection of natural foods and drinks, along with a made-to-order sandwich service. Fine wines and cheeses, specialty beers, great soups, heat and eat meals, organic and local produce. The area's best catering.
Serves breakfast, a wide variety of pizza, subs, panini sandwiches, and all sorts of ice cream treats. Delivery available to houses, condos, or hotel rooms anywhere in Bethel and surrounding towns including Sunday River.
Pizza, subs, tacos, stuffed breadsticks available. Delivery and take-out available.
(Newry). Authentic New York pizza and sub take-out shop on the Sunday River access road. NY Pizza is now part of the Barking Dawg Market.
Full-service homemade pizza restaurant, also featuring homemade soup, lasagna, and chicken and eggplant parm. Also has full liquor bar with micro-brew drafts, wine and bottled beers.
Great pizza, take out, 29 beers on tap, live entertainment Th-Sa.
Finest fresh meat, dry rubbed with secret spices and slowly smoked with local hardwood. Served up with homemade sides and some attitude.
Roasted rack of lamb, duckling with maple blueberry glaze are served by the fire. Excellent service and wine list.
Fine dining in three intimate dining rooms. Extensive wine list. Monthly Wine tasting Dinners featuring wines and foods of different countries and/or regions.
On the way to Sunday River in Newry, the Matterhorn is only open during ski season.
At Sunday River's White Cap lodge.
Try hoot night on Thursdays.
Also goes by Moose's Tale Food and Ale, and StoneCoast Brewing Co.
Open year round. Five miles from Sunday River, features six rooms and an English pub. $79-149.
Redone historic 19th-century inn with 14 elegantly decoarted rooms and loft bedroom suites.
Open year round. Seven-room Victorian inn in the heart of Bethel.
Quaint inn in Bethel's historic district.
Motel/inn five minutes down the road from Sunday River.
6 rooms in a casual inn with a great restaurant.
The motel, which has 22 rooms, and the inn, 8 rooms, is five minutes down the road from Sunday River.
Homey renovated farmhouse with two rooms.
Circa 1873, the Sudbury offers 18 rooms with seven suites and a three bedroom apartment. Excellent fine dining restaurant and the lively "Sud's Pub" all under one roof. Recommended by Bon Appetit as "the perfect way to end a day".
(Newry). Family-oriented inn with a cross-country skiing center, a 1/2 mile away from Sunday River.
In the heart of Bethel on the Mountain Explorer Shuttle route with direct access to Sunday River.
All-season hostel with 18 total beds. Bed price is from $19.
On the Common. 150 room resort on 200 acres, featuring an 18-hole golf course, fine and casual dining, fitness center, ski and snowshoe center, tennis court, and more.
(Newry). Luxurious 9-bedroom mountain estate on the Sunday River Golf Course with free door-to-door trolley service to the Mountain. All the amenities of a top resort (and then some!), but with the conveniences of home.
(Newry). Cozy mountain house has 4 bedrooms along the Roadrunner trail in Sunday River.
Sunday River Ski Resort. Upscale 230 room hotel featuring two restaurants, a health club and a heated outdoor pool and a true slopiside location.
Sunday River Ski Resort. 195 room hotel slopeside to the Lollapalooza trail with a health club, heated outdoor pool and hot tub, and two restaurants.
Sunday River Ski Resort. Cozy mountainside lodging featuring a fitness room, outdoor pool and ski lockers a short walk away from the slopes.
Interstate 95 (Maine Turnpike) to Exit 63 "Gray" Route 26. Take Route 26 North.
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