Brunswick, ME

Brunswick is a Cumberland County town on the Androscoggin River, best known for Bowdoin College and a lively Maine Street downtown. The census-designated place covers the town's central built-up area, but the community's identity reaches wider: college culture, old mills, riverfront history, shops, restaurants, and access to nearby coastal towns. Brunswick feels academic and coastal-adjacent without being a beach town. It is one of midcoast Maine's more complete small centers, with real year-round civic life.