Flagpole installation inBar Harbor, ME

Flagpoles in Bar Harbor

A resort and research town on Mount Desert Island, with hotels and inns at the front, a national park at the back, and a college, a laboratory and a hospital keeping it open all year. We cover Bar Harbor and the Hancock County area, including Main Street and Cottage Street, the town pier and Agamont Park, the Shore Path, West Street and the Eden Street hotel frontage, College of the Atlantic, the Jackson Laboratory, Mount Desert Island Hospital and the Acadia National Park boundary wrapped around all of it.

Wind here. Bar Harbor sits in a Downeast island coastal area, which works out to roughly 110 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Bar Harbor is a review town before it is a wind town. The Design Review Board looks at new structures and exterior changes inside an overlay district that takes in Main Street and Cottage Street, West Street out to the pier and the Eden Street frontage, and that review comes ahead of the permit. Then the island itself. Mount Desert is granite, so the hole commonly ends on ledge well short of the 48 inch frost depth the town publishes, and the footing is drilled and pinned into rock instead of poured into a shape, which is a different day and a different price. Within 250 feet of the high-water line you are also in the shoreland zone, which carries setback and height limits of its own, and the code officer is the one who decides how a flagpole reads against them, so we ask before we mark. Salt and fog finish the specification: anodized, stainless or bronze hardware, nothing plated.

Most of the people who call us from Bar Harbor are hotels, inns and guest houses, restaurants and Main Street retail, the college, the laboratory and the hospital, town buildings, marinas and boat businesses, churches and shore homes.