150 guests gathered at one long table on the shoreline frontage of an exclusive inn and restaurant tucked into a hard-to-find island cove for a pop-up dinner like no other.

Originally home to a Quaker that once spent forty days in complete silence, the Hermit’s Cabin now offers a quiet escape for local artists through the owners’ micro-residency program.

Tight quarters, moonlit-sails, and riding out storms on the open ocean: five days at sea aboard a 44’ sailboat between Martha’s Vineyard and Portland, Maine with Captain Emma and her guests.

A commercial barge operator teams up with local non-profits to collect, haul, and recycle a cache of abandoned fishing gear from a small island off Port Clyde.

After purchasing a set of rustic cottages with an overgrown campus, Suzy O’Brien’s practical investment slowly became a way of life. Despite years of renovations, the imperfections that she and her partner Ernie left intact—rough hewn wood interiors, groaning floorboards, screen doors that creak—have come to define this seaside retreat.

Three friends and a Registered Maine Guide strapped nordic skis to inflatable packrafts, paddled down the Pushaw Stream, and skied back through the snowy woods.

Low tides on the Bold Coast—and a crew of seaweed zealots foraging wild-grown species along a stretch of equally wild coastline during the spring harvest season.

Caviar service on a flipped over canoe and charred octopus with heirloom grits after a long day of paddling: when an ex-fine dining chef and Registered Maine Guide team up on a backcountry canoe trip, the results are appropriately over the top.

Where Buttermilk Cove meets the Gurnet Strait right on the Harpswell town line, Blake and Lily are lovingly restoring an historic lobstering village tied to one of the area’s oldest families.

A water-access only, all-inclusive wilderness lodge in the middle of a lake just minutes from the Quebec border. In other words: perfect.

12,000 years ago, glacial retreat left unconsolidated regolith scattered across Downeast Maine: perfect conditions for wild, lowbush blueberries.

With five lean-tos, a ranger station, and a wharf for campers arriving via mailboat, Isle au Haut hosts one of the Park Service’s most diminutive campgrounds: Duck Harbor.

Forging a new path for Maine-made axes—and rediscovering the State’s nearly forgotten history as an epicenter of American axe craftsmanship along the banks of the Messalonskee.

Honoring family and finding a future at Bobbie Ames’ stunning estate on a sleepy shoreline stretch of Lamoine’s Eastern Bay.

Smithereen Farm’s gorgeous acreage sits atop a clutch of rolling hills that yawn their way down to Cobscook Bay. Their summer kitchen—completely open on two sides, the walls adorned with dried herbs, kitchen tools, and mason jars of preserved foods—serves as a striking and memorable community center.

A big wait for tiny fish on the frozen shores of the Kennebec River at Worthing Jim Smelt Camp in Randolph, Maine.

Tents on the beach and fires on the tideline: a late-summer island camping trip along the Maine Island Trail in the Stonington Archipelago.

With hand-typed menus and placemats made of giant burdock leaves, forager and artist Rachel Alexandrou hosted a beautiful and intimate backyard dinner utilizing wild ingredients gathered from the Maine coast.

Four friends, three nights, and two overland adventure rigs on an early autumn adventure through Baxter State Park.

Photographing a seasonal colony of Atlantic Puffins—ten miles out to sea beyond Maine’s jagged Bold Coast on a remote, disputed island.