Blue Hill peninsula, Maine
The best month is the one nobody books.
September the water is warmer than June, the crowds are gone and the light gets long and low. October brings the colour down the peninsula. If you can travel midweek, this is the month to do it.
Fourteen rooms and four shore cabins on a working peninsula, open late May to late October.
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Captain’s house, second floor
The Reach
South over the water. You can see the channel markers from the bed.
$245 a night, and up
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Captain’s house, second floor
Lupine
East into the field. Full sun by seven in July.
$210 a night, and up
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Shore cabin
Ledge Cabin
Straight onto the granite. Twenty feet from the tide line.
$265 a night, and up
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This season
Fog Days
Three midweek nights in the shoulder, with the third at half rate. Built for the month the peninsula is at its best and the house is at its emptiest.
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The peninsula · 4 min
What to do when it is socked in
Fog is not a lost day here, it is the reason some people come back. The question guests actually ask, answered properly.
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The peninsula · 3 min
The boats go out at five
A working harbour on a summer morning, and where to stand so you are watching rather than in the way.
Read itWe came for two nights in October and rebooked from the front room before we left. The fog morning was the best part and we would not have believed that in advance.
Marguerite D.Ledge Cabin, October
Nell told us to go to the landing at five and stand by the fish house. We did. It made the trip.
Aaron P.The Reach, July
Breakfast is at eight
Nell Wickham has run this house since 1996.
No front desk and no revenue manager. Ask where to go on a grey day and you get a real answer rather than a brochure.
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