Scenes from Bluff Housee Inn

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
Just Add Water Floating Camps

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,...
Portland Harbor Hotel lobby

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...
Participate in or watch the annual tobogganing championships at the Camden Snow Bowl.

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...
Garden's Aglow, Maine

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 is an easy day trip from mid-coast Maine.

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...
Spend an hour at the Alexander Art Trail, a sculpture trail just inland of down east Maine. ©Hilary Nangle

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...