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Even the choice of styles and colors of such attire has declined precipitously in recent years. Quality and durability of shirts and sweaters and hiking boots and raingear aren’t what they once were. Leading-edge products for outdoor adventures engage one’s attention and create longing to be outdoors. Memorials revere the founder’s wisdom with words and images. Displays of a taxidermist’s art fill a stairwell niche.

Inside staff eagerly guide patrons to whatever they seek. The iconic big boot still guards the main building’s front entrance. Paved paths lead from one building to another.

At the northeast side lot is a multiport electric car charging center. Its themed buildings share a central campus with massive amounts of parking nearby. But no trip to Maine is really complete with a visit to Bean in Freeport, even if you don't buy anything it's worth seeing and taking that picture outside by the Big Boot.Īs the epicenter for the area’s outlet stores, and a flagship in its own right, LL Bean has lost little of its luster since my last visit. I understand there is an 'outlet store' in Freeport proper too, but we did not visit so I cannot comment on it's contents of value. If you are hunting for Bean discounts the Outlet Store in Ellsworth (near Acadia NP, albeit 2 hours north) may be what you seek. Now, given the high quality and outstanding level of customer service that goes with that price that doesn't bother a lot of folks (me included), but each of the stores has a sale section where you can indeed find bargain priced items, which is good actually for those at either end of the 'standard sizing' charts because the small and large sizes seem to show up in the Sale Sections in greater numbers than the average ones (naturally).

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The complex is large and vast, the stores are staffed by friendly and helpful employees, and if you are looking for a specific item you will find it in your color, size, shape and/or unique length as long as you are willing to pay the full Bean price. Multiple Bean Stores, each catering to a different section of their Catalog (i.e.