Bar Harbor cruise ship traffic slows to a trickle under new limits

Bar Harbor cruise ship traffic slows to a trickle under new limits

Tourist season in Bar Harbor has resumed with the usual crowded sidewalks and hard-to-find parking spots, but there is one noticeable difference this summer. The town’s cruise ship visits are a shadow of what they have been the past three years. After seeing more than 100 ship visits between April and early November in each of the past three years — most of them from large ships — Bar Harbor this year at most will get 16 large ship visits, and s…