Craignair Inn
Bed and Breakfast and Restaurant

The Craignair Inn offers bed and breakfast lodging as well as casual fine dining on two acres of shorefront within the 3,500 odd miles of bays, peninsulas, inlets, and headlands which form a Maine coastline unmatched anywhere for its beauty and coastal activity. Set on a granite ledge rising from the sea and surrounded by flower gardens, Craignair was built in 1928 to house workers from the nearby quarries.

Little has changed here since the turn of the century, and you can still feel the mood of a once lively and active working town. The houses lining Clark Island Road are mainly former quarry workers' homes. The Union Hall still stands, as well as the old general store and post office. The chapel, where the stonecutters and their families once worshipped, is now an Inn annex. Also, one may walk along any of several stone wharves still standing and imagine the granite being loaded aboard the coastal schooners for shipment to market. Clark Island granite was used in the construction of the Central Park bridges and gatehouses and in the Brooklyn Battery tunnel, both in New York City and the Library of Congress in Washington, just to name a few.

The New England boarding house was converted to a country inn in 1940. Downstairs is an exceedingly warm and cheery parlor-library, a sunny dining room that looks out on the sea, and an old-fashioned kitchen. Upstairs, the bedrooms are furnished with comfortable beds, antique dressers, and inviting decor, and most have beautiful ocean views. There are six rooms with private baths and six with shared baths. The Vestry Annex has eight accommodations, all with private baths, and is furnished with antiques. All Vestry rooms are air conditioned.

The Inn's dining room is a special find! The cuisine is prepared to order using fresh local seafoods, meats, homemade sauces, pastas, and pastries. The dining room atmosphere, along with the view of the sea, will add to your dining pleasure while you enjoy the outstanding food and wine list.

Sit in the garden ... relax and watch the activities of shorebirds, clammers, and lobstermen. Or explore the coast, along the many miles of paths adjacent to the Inn, to find the spruce forests, clam flats, offshore islands, tidal pools, and meadows, all abundant with wildflowers, and generally, seals.

Nearby Rockland and Camden offer such diversions as antiques, art galleries, museums, shops, concerts, tennis, golf, riding, and sailboats as well as pay homage to seafood, blueberries, chicken, and sailboats. There are also numerous county fairs.

During the colder months, one may hike, snowshoe, cross-country ski, or ice skate in the immediate area or downhill ski at the Camden Snow Bowl, just a short drive away. And when the fog rolls in, the comfortable sitting room with its large library and crackling fire provides a pleasant refuge. So come enjoy the hospitality, good food, and beautiful countryside that the Craignair Inn offers, and when you do, you'll return again and again.