Robinson's Cottages

09/03/2026

Eastport, ME is included as one of 7 breathtaking towns in New England ❤️

Explore New England's beauty through Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, and more, offering diverse experiences from cliff walks to historic towns.

09/02/2026

🌊 There is a Maine village where nobody has ever driven a car to the store, because there is no road to drive it on.

Monhegan sits twelve miles out in the open Atlantic off the midcoast, a granite ridge less than two miles long. The mail boat comes over from Port Clyde or New Harbor and that is the whole connection to the mainland. Freight moves up from the wharf on wooden hand carts with bicycle wheels, which is exactly as slow and as charming as it sounds. Roughly sixty people stay through the winter. In summer the population multiplies several times over and then drains back out again by Columbus Day.

The eastern side of the island is the part that stops people. The land climbs and then simply ends in headland cliffs at Whitehead and Blackhead that drop about 150 feet straight into the Atlantic, with seventeen miles of trail threading through spruce woods and wildflower meadows to get you there. Artists have been coming since the 1850s. Rockwell Kent lived here. Edward Hopper painted here. The Wyeths kept a house here.

The lobster fleet does not run on a normal calendar either. Monhegan sets its own trap season and opens it in the dead of winter, when almost nobody else on the coast is hauling. 🦞 It is the kind of place where the ferry schedule is the only clock that matters and the general store closes when it closes.

Have you made it out to Monhegan, and if you did, did you walk the Whitehead loop or just sit down at the harbor and let the whole day go by?

08/30/2026

At Mowry Beach in the little town of Lubec, Maine…you’ll find one of the state’s most remote but beautiful little beaches, where quiet shoreline, wide-open views, and the huge Downeast tides make every visit feel a little different. The beach stretches for about 1.2 miles, with the 48-acre Mowry Beach Preserve protecting 1,800 feet of shoreline overlooking Lubec Channel and Campobello Island in Canada. At low tide, the water pulls far back and leaves broad stretches of sand, rocks, tide pools, driftwood, and plenty of room for beachcombing and searching for sea glass. One of the coolest sights appears near the low-tide line, where old rooted tree stumps from a long-submerged forest can still be seen, a reminder that sea level here was once much lower. The preserve also has a 1,700-foot wooden boardwalk that winds through coastal scrub, past a sphagnum bog and cattail swamp, before reaching the shore. The South Lubec shoreline is also recognized by the State of Maine as an Important Bird Area, so migrating songbirds are common throughout the area. It’s a peaceful place for a slow walk, photos, birdwatching, or simply enjoying one of Maine’s easternmost sandy beaches without the crowds.

08/30/2026

🌀 The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere is off the coast of Maine, and it makes a noise.

It is called the Old Sow, and it turns in the Western Passage between Moose Island, which is Eastport, and Deer Island on the New Brunswick side. When the tide floods into Passamaquoddy Bay, an enormous volume of water gets forced through a narrow channel over an underwater ridge and a deep trench, and the result is a rotating depression that can run around 250 feet across, ringed by smaller eddies that locals call piglets.

The name comes from the sound. When it is really working it grunts and squeals, which is exactly the sort of detail you would assume was a fisherman's exaggeration until you hear a recording of it. It is at its most dramatic roughly three hours off the tide, and boats give it genuine respect. Small craft have been spun, swamped, and in a few cases lost in it.

Only the great maelstrom off the coast of Norway is bigger, which makes this the second largest whirlpool on the planet. It happens twice a day off a working Maine fishing town of about 1,300 people, which is a very Maine way for a world record to sit. ⚓

Have you seen the Old Sow from Eastport, and did it look like the pictures or bigger?

08/29/2026

End of summer/Fall availability (arrival-departure) as of 8/29:
Cottage #1 - Aug 30-Sept 2, Sept 15-20, Sept 27-Oct 6, Oct 12-18, Oct 25-29, Nov 8-11, Nov 18-21
Cottage #2 - Sept 7-9, Sept 12-15, Oct 1-2, Oct 5-8, Oct 9-10, Oct 12-14, Oct 18-19, Oct 22-23, Oct 26-29, Nov 1-8
Cottage #3 - Sept 6-7, Oct 6-7, Oct 9-10, Oct 16-17, Oct 22-25, Oct 31-Nov 25
Cottage #4 - Sept 3-4, Sept 16-17, Oct 10-11, Oct 22-27, Nov 9-22
Cottage #5 - Sept 2-4, Sept 7-11, Oct 18-21, Nov 15-22
Cottage #6 - Sept 27-Oct 2, Oct 18-21, Oct 22-Oct 31, Nov 1-7, Nov 8-25
Cottage #7 - Aug 30-Sept 2, Sept 7-11, Sept 13-15, Sept 17-19, Sept 24-25, Sept 27-Oct 1, Oct 15-Nov 1
Tent site - Aug 30 - Oct 13

www.robinsonscottages.com
207-726-9546
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08/28/2026

Cottage #5 is still available during the time period of Sept 2-11, just a 2-night minimum!

www.robinsonscottages.com

08/28/2026

08/21/2026

Update: Sept 2-4 and Sept 7-11 are available in Cottage #5.

We have had a couple of cancellations of shorter stays in Cottage #5 that have opened up a nice long period of availability - September 2-11 (which includes Labor Day weekend)!
We are not requiring that the entirety of this opening be reserved. The minimum stay for Cottage #5 is 2 nights.

www.robinsonscottages.com
207-726-9546