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Where to stay in Maine & beyond: Look here for reviews, news, special experiences, pet-friendly accommodations, and more. For more specific lodging posts, click on one of the tabs: Hotels & Resorts, Cabins and Cottages, Inns & B&Bs, motels, sporting camps, or cheap sleeps (my picks for budget-friendly accommodations).

Some of the cabins at Castle Island Camps on Long Pond, in Belgrade Lakes, Maine, are built right over the water. Hilary Nangle photo.

Maine’s Belgrade Lakes: the real On Golden Pond

Long before the movie, Maine's Belgrade Lakes were drawing fishermen, summer rusticators, writers, and even beauty queens. On Golden Pond, that dreamy sunset-of-life film...
Visit lighthouses along Maine's coast on Maine Open Lighthouse Day. Hilary Nangle photo.

Light up your life: Visit a Maine lighthouse this summer

The romanticism of lighthouse life has motivated many a traveler to seek out a Maine lighthouse or two, and there are numerous ways to...

Free map details Maine’s Public Reserved Lands

Ease into the great outdoors on Maine's Public Reserved Lands. Download a free map from the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) that...
The Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City

What to see & do in Quebec City, plus where to eat & sleep

Wondering what to see and do in Quebec City? I can help. Since I live in Maine, I consider Quebec City as my extended...

New owner for Ogunquit’s historical Cliff House Resort & Spa

It's the end of an era: Fourth-generation owner Kathryn Weare has sold the Cliff House Resort & Spa, which tops the cliffs of Bald...
Escape to the ocean-front Inn at Ocean's Edge in Lincolnville, Maine. Courtesy photo

Checking In: Inn at Ocean’s Edge, Lincolnville, Maine

The splurge-worthy Inn at Ocean's Edge delivers on its name. Tucked well off Route 1 in Lincolnville, this Maine inn's seven-acre property descends to...
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...
Pergola at Aragostavideo

Checking In: Aragosta, Deer Isle, Maine

Oceanfront Aragosta, Deer Isle, welcomes guests to private, comfy cottages salting spruce woodlands and a nationally acclaimed restaurant.
Collage depicts three Maine hotels that always participate in HospitalityMaine's Hospitality for Habitat promotion (clockwise from left): the Beachmere in Ogunquit, the Nonantum in Kennebunkport, and the Inn by the Sea in Cape Elizabeth @Hilary Nangle

Hospitality for Habitat offers 50 percent off primo Maine lodgings

Check out Hospitality for Habitat and check into one of Maine's finer accommodations at a heavily discounted offseason rate.

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...
Inn on the Harbor, Stonington, Mainevideo

Checking In: Inn on the Harbor, Stonington

The Inn on the Harbor earns its name. The Stonington property hugs a thin strip of land between the road and the water, and its huge deck hangs over the harbor. Comfy guestrooms and a 2-bedroom apartment fill a handful of cheek-by-jowl downtown buildings.
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.
Lubec's last sardine-processing plant found new life as The Inn at the Wharf. The Inn on the Wharf, in Lubec, is sited in a former sardine processing plant. ©Hilary Nangle

Checking-In: Lubec’s Inn on the Wharf delivers authentic taste of Maine’s seafaring heritage

If The Inn on the Wharf, in Lubec were any closer to the shoreline, I could cast a fishing line out my window. Instead,...
Purposefully Lost treehouse, hot tub and outdoor fire pit, kitchen detail showing retro microwave

Checking In: Purposely Lost Treehouse in Springvale

I spent two nights closer to heaven in Purposely Lost's Cliff House treehouse, one of three treehouse vacation rentals sited on forested property edging Littlefield Pond in Springvale.