Kennebunkport is a southern Maine coastal town at the mouth of the Kennebunk River, separate from the neighboring town of Kennebunk, known for Dock Square, Goose Rocks Beach, the Bush family's Walker's Point estate, and the fishing village of Cape Porpoise.
A town of roughly 3,700 people right next to a similarly named but entirely separate town, home to a private Bush family estate you can only glimpse from a distance.
Unlike some more remote Maine gateway towns, Kennebunkport stays genuinely open year-round thanks to its proximity to Portland and Boston, even as summer remains its clear peak season.
One of the area's most popular beaches actually sits in a different town entirely, and the private estate everyone wants to photograph can only be viewed from a public road at a distance.
A storm-damaged waterfront restaurant reopened under a completely different name and concept, and one of the most famous 'Kennebunkport' restaurants everyone talks about is actually across the river in a different town.
Several well-known 'Kennebunkport' coffee shops turn out to be located across the river in the separate town of Kennebunk, and one popular ice cream shop relocated there too.
There's no major chain hotel located inside Kennebunkport at all — the ones marketed under the town's name are actually across the river, exactly the kind of confusion this town's shared name invites.
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