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Village · United States · Maine

# Rumford

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Rumford

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. Rumford Public Library The Rumford Public Library is a library in Rumford, Maine. The building it is in was designed by Maine architect John Calvin Stevens and was built with a funding grant from Andrew Carnegie in 1903. 800 m · public library in Maine, United States of America · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumford_Public_Library)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Rumford

**Airports:** Portland International Jetport (PWM), 103 km · Boston Logan (BOS), 246 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 257 km\

- Portland → Rumford 102 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · $10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/portland-to-rumford) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Portland&to=Rumford)
- Boston → Rumford 248 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · $23–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/boston-to-rumford) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Boston&to=Rumford)
- Providence/Warwick → Rumford Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/providence-warwick-to-rumford) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Providence%2FWarwick&to=Rumford)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Rumford)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Rumford

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rumford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Vinalhaven and the Fox Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vinalhaven) US 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 148 km
2. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 483 km
3. [Tortola and the British Virgin Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tortola) VG 11 ways of moving, 15 sources 2,957 km
4. [Vieques](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vieques) PR 8 ways of moving, 12 sources 2,976 km
5. [Saba](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/saba) NL 8 ways of moving, 22 sources 3,070 km

If you know how people move in Rumford – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Crumford&title=Rumford&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Frumford), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Rumford

- [Mexico](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mexico) town in Maine, United States 900 m

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