New owners reviving Bluff House Inn on the Schoodic Peninsula
The Bluff House, a lodge-style inn and cabins on Maine's Schoodic Peninsula, overlooks Frenchman Bay. ©Hilary Nangle
Aboard the Floating Nomad houseboat now anchored on Bremen’s Pemaquid Pond
What it's like to stay aboard the Floating Nomad houseboat, which moved, with its sister Roam houseboat in 2021 to Pemaquid Pond in Bremen, Maine.
Travel car free between Portland, Freeport, Brunswick, Maine
It's easy to travel car free between Portland, Freeport, and Brunswick, Maine, via the Amtrak Downeaster train and the Greater Portland Metro...
Let’s talk Maine lobster: All you need to know about Maine’s lobster shacks, lobster...
Maine lobster is world-renowned, and you can enjoy it a gazillion ways.
Of course, eating it is the biggie (there are so many options—baked, broiled,...
Checking In: Suite dreams at the Portland Harbor Hotel
Tough assignment, staying at the Portland Harbor Hotel and checking out the executive suites. Bottom line, if you can swing it, book one.
Now Maine...
Don’t miss these uber fun, only-in-Maine winter events
I love Maine in winter. I embrace the quietude, love playing outdoors in the snow, and I especially love the special events...
All agog about Maine’s Gardens Aglow
Brighten the season with Maine's Gardens Aglow, the annual holiday light extravaganza at the Maine Coastal Botanical Gardens in Boothbay.
If this vibrant illumination isn't...
Monhegan Island seduces artists, birders, hikers, dreamers, and drifters
Ahhhh! The Artists' Island. Take a walk about Monhegan Island, and it's easy to see how it earned that moniker. Everywhere you look is...
Discover down east Maine’s Alexander Art Trail sculpture park
Finding the Alexander Art Trail requires noodling through the back of beyond, but this unique—in the truest sense of the word—sculpture park sited amidst...
Checking In: Spruce Point Inn, Boothbay Harbor
From the minute one arrives at Maine's Spruce Point Inn, there’s a sense of ahhhh. The oceanfront resort sprawls over 57 landscaped acres salted...