Fairmount Neighborhood Guide

Fairmount sits in the western reaches of Bangor, bordered by Union Street to the north, West Broadway to the east, Hammond Street and I-395 to the south, and the Bangor Municipal Golf Course and Bangor International Airport to the west, a combination that gives the neighborhood its distinctly open, unhurried character. The golf course is a genuine presence here, not just a boundary line, and residents tend to embrace it, whether they play or simply enjoy the scent of cut fairways drifting into their backyards alongside the lilacs that seem to grow on every property. Planes from the nearby airport pass overhead with enough regularity that locals stop noticing, and most describe that background hum as part of the neighborhood's wide-open, unhurried feel rather than a drawback. Parks, green space, and the occasional deer wandering through a garden round out a setting that skews leafy and residential without feeling remote from the rest of the city.