Of all the landmarks along Penobscot Bay, few reward a visitor as generously for so little effort as the Rockland Breakwater. It costs nothing, it takes under an hour, and it delivers one of the best views in Mid-Coast Maine: nearly a mile of granite walked straight out into the harbor, ending at a working...

“Maine-00067 – Owls Head” by Dennis Jarvis is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Just south of Rockland, a small peninsula reaches out into Penobscot Bay, ending in a rocky headland that the early mariners thought resembled an owl’s head. The town that grew up there took the name, and today Owls Head is home to...

There’s a version of retirement that looks something like this: a morning walk to the farmers market in a town you actually know, a round of golf on a course that looks out over a bay full of sailing vessels, an afternoon kayak to a quiet cove, dinner at a restaurant where the lobster came...

If you’ve spent any time in Midcoast Maine, you’ve probably seen the photograph. A white lighthouse perched at the end of a long wooden walkway, the Atlantic stretching endlessly behind it, the quintessential Maine sky above. That’s Marshall Point Light in Port Clyde, and it is — without exaggeration — one of the most photographed...