Main Stay Cottages

Main Stay Cottages offer travelers an opportunity to enjoy modern cabins on the shore of Henry's Cove overlooking Cadillac Mountain and Acadia National Park. The 150 year-old boathouse cottage represents the passage of cultures connected to the sea and your hosts are the sixth generation to make their home on this land. Residents have long accessed the services available in Bar Harbor only a few minutes away by water, while enjoying the remoteness of this small fishing village. The Bar Harbor Ferry provides passenger service from our neighboring dock. The boathouse is one of the few remaining structures built at a time, when the water was the primary source of transportation and daily life evolved around the tides and the use of schooners to connect these homes on posts to the markets and resources of other villages. As roads joined the villages, Winter Harbor's summer colony developed around 1900 and paralleled the grandeur of Bar Harbor. Distance from major population centers has preserved the simplicity of a lifestyle of fishermen and their families over the decades. 

Take a step back in time to the rhythm of the ocean, enjoying the cool breezes that have attracted a range of summer visitors for over a century.

A ferry to Bar Harbor leaves from the marina dock beside the cottages and several excellent restaurants are within walking distance.  Your hosts, Roger and Pearl Barto reside in the family homestead behind the cottages, where their son carries on the family tradition of lobster fishing from his boat, the Penny Pincha.

The four cottages can accommodate sixteen people and the grounds are welcoming to family reunions, yet private for individual rentals.  Each cottage has a private outside deck and access to a lawn area with picnic table and charcoal barbecue.  

 Winter Harbor boasts accessibility to the mainland section of Acadia National Park's Schoodic Point and Main Stay Cottages offers the only lodging overlooking the ocean in Winter Harbor.  The Schoodic Section of the National Park provides hiking trails and opportunities within a five- minute drive to enjoy the surf and Maine’s rocky shores.  Winter Harbor gives visitors a sense of a traditional Maine fishing village with the amenities of a bank, 5&10, gift shops and grocery store.  Both Bunker's Wharf and Fisherman’s Inn offer fine dining with unique seafood menus.  Chase’s Restaurant is open throughout the day and is famous for the best chowder in the area.  We attract folks, who want the option of cooking in their own fully equipped kitchens or enjoying a meal prepared by an award winning chef before the nightlife begins (and ends) with an exquisite Downeast sunset.

 SeaScape Kayaking and Ardea EcoExpeditions will assist you with kayak trips. We are uniquely located with the National Park in our front yard and Petit Manan’s Federal Wildlife Refuge and the State of Maine’s Donnell Pond Public Reserve only 15 minutes away. These three parks offer varied public access to Maine’s landscapes and hiking. Freshwater swimming and golf are minutes away. Day trips are easily planned for Mount Desert Island, Fort Knox and Campobello; Roosevelt’s summer home.

Boathouse

The second floor of the boathouse has been totally remodeled to offer a one-bedroom modernized Maine experience for travelers, who wish to depart from the traditional hotel rooms which are often predictable across the country.  The building extends over the water on pilings and the deck  brings you an ocean experience without the inconvenience of living on a  boat.  You can observe the native sea birds as they visit the cove, watch the sail boat races from the neighboring yacht club  or patiently wait for a harbor seal to emerge from the water to do their own observations of new guests on their shorefront.  The boathouse is fully equipped for cooking, has a comfy queen sized bed, shower and a living area that offers cable television or a view of the flames from the gas fireplace after the sun goes down.  Rate: $100.00 per night

Ledgelawn is perched on the outcropping of ledge that separates the ocean from our  home and was derived from the original phone exchange that preceded area codes and multiple digits.  The deck overlooks Pearl’s attempt at a perennial flower garden with unobstructed views of the cove.  This is a modern one-bedroom cabin with full kitchen, including microwave and dishwasher.  The living area has polished hard wood floors, which invite you to take your shoes off and stay awhile, complete with a gas fireplace and cable television.  There is a queen bed, day bed and a cot that easily accommodates a family of four.  The bath has a tub/shower and a washer/dryer.  The cottage is equipped with cooking utensils and linens.   This cedar-shingled cottage was built with the conveniences of a very comfortable home away from home.  Rate:  $115.00 per night

 

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Little Cranberry

This traditional one room Maine cottage by the sea is done in cedar on the inside and  out.  The cheerful red accents throughout lend it the name: Cranberry with the comforts of a pillow-topped queen bed and recliners overlooking the cove or cable television.  We invite you to prepare your own lobster meal with a fully equipped kitchen and a private patio for sunshine and natural breezes.  A gas furnace is available, if needed, and the bathroom has a shower.   This cottage is new to guests for the 2004 season and has the combined coziness of a cabin with the amenities of home. Linens and kitchen equipment are included.   Rate:  $90.00 per night

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Crow's Nest

A second floor guest room with a private entrance has an outside deck overlooking the harbor.  It has French doors opening to a large room with hardwood floors, queen bed, television, gas fireplace reclining love seat. the private bathroom has a shower.  Rate:  $80.00 per night

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