Dog Boarding & Daycare Near Hermon, Maine

Hermon is one of the fastest-growing towns in this group: its population jumped 19.3%, from 5,416 to 6,461, between the 2010 and 2020 census counts, as new subdivisions filled in west of Bangor. At about 176 people per square mile, it's still far less dense than Brewer or Veazie.

The town is dotted with small ponds — Hermon Pond at 462 acres, Tracy Pond at 47 acres and George Pond at 49 acres — drained toward the Penobscot by the Souadabscook and Wheeler Streams. It's also home to Hermon Mountain, a small local ski and snow-tubing hill, and the Ecotat Garden and Arboretum, a cultivated garden with forested trails behind it.

Hermon High School and Hermon Middle School, home of the Hermon Hawks, anchor the town's community life, which fits a town that's grown mostly through young families moving in over the last decade rather than through any single large employer or commercial center.

Despite that growth, Hermon still reads as a low-density, spread-out town rather than a dense suburb — new subdivisions have filled in around the existing ponds and woods without creating anything like a traditional town center.

Hermon covers 35.87 square miles of land, which is a lot of room for a town of its population — part of why newer subdivisions have had space to spread out around the ponds rather than infill a tighter existing grid.