Maine Island Trail Association
“The Maine Island Trail Association is a membership organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the wild islands of coastal Maine. Founded in 1988 to administer the Maine Island Trail, MITA embraces the powerfully simple idea that care of the islands can be left to the users of these treasured and fragile places. Our ability to turn island users into island stewards is why islands visited by members tend to be in better shape than those left alone.
Their members include paddlers, sailors, motor boaters, and land-lubbers alike. They form a powerful force of people actively committed to the care and protection of the wild islands of Maine. We hope you’ll join them and the many like-minded people who keep the Trail, and the islands, alive and well. MITA members receive comprehensive information about the Trail, helpful tips for safe and responsible boating, and guidelines for low-impact recreation. Members also support ongoing stewardship and education efforts aimed at preserving Trail sites and experiences for future generations.”
Good Tide Tours
Good Tide Tours, based out of Stonington, Maine! Do a tour with local Captian Walker and his boat Blue Dream. Blue Dream is a 1978 Repco Lobster Boat. She’s retired from fishing for the time being, ready for passengers to enjoy the beauty of the Maine coast! Let’s get out on the water and cruise around the islands. It’s friggin’ nice out there bub!
Isle au Haut
Boat Service
Isle au Haut Boat Service will take you to Isle au Haut for hiking or Biking on the Island. They also do Puffin Cruises out to Seal Island, your only local way to see puffins. Ecocruises will show you lighthouses, seals and lobstering.
Deer Isle Granite Museum
Stonington, Maine’s Deer Isle Granite Museum features a unique 3D model of the granite quarry on nearby Crotch Island, as it was operated in the early 1900s.
Although it is tiny, the museum is a can’t-miss experience if you are visiting the picturesque fishing village of Stonington on the Maine coast. The museum is located in the old Webb Building on Main Street and easy to find as you enter town via Route 15.
The museum’s exhibits celebrate the skill and bravery of Stonington’s quarrymen, as well as the fascinating history of the Deer Isle granite industry. The quarriers’ risky work cut the distinctive pink granite used in such 20th century monuments as New York’s Rockefeller Center, approaches to the Manhattan and George Washington Bridges and the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.
The museum is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 12-4.
Coldwater Seafood
Market & Smokehouse
In our fresh seafood market we offer an always changing assortment! Come check out our weekly specials on fresh fish and meats. We always have fresh local dug clams and local oysters for sale.
44 North Coffee
44 North Coffee was born in 2010 on a small island off the coast of Maine. Founded on the principle that fresh and ethically sourced coffee sips best, we custom roast organic Arabica coffee beans in Deer Isle. We honor the hard work of the farmers who grow our coffee by fairly purchasing seasonal organic beans and roasting to levels that highlight the best tasting notes in each cup. Enjoy at your own line of latitude!
Deer Isle Hostel
Eco-hostel on a bridge accessed island in Maine. Hand built 17th century inspired building. Private rooms for up to 4 people and Secluded Huts. Solar power, Hand pumped water and Hot Outdoor shower.Communal dinner each evening at 6.30 pm. Organic gardens with Chickens! Excellent kayaking/canoeing archipelago. Next to ocean side nature preserve and hiking trails
Haystack Mountain School
of Craft
From a stunning coastal Maine campus, Haystack provides time and space to engage with materials, to develop new ideas and to work in a creative and supportive community. Haystack connects people through craft. Serving an ever-changing group of makers and thinkers, we are dedicated to working and learning alongside one another, while exploring the intersections of craft, art, and design in broad and expansive ways.
Island Heritage Trust
The Island Heritage Trust is a non-profit private land trust dedicated to conservation that protects significant open space, scenic areas, wildlife habitats, natural resources, and historic and cultural features that offer public benefit and are essential to the character of the Deer Isle area. IHT contributes to the well-being of the island community by conserving its distinctive landscapes and natural resources, maintaining public access to valued trails, shoreline and islands, and by providing educational programming for all ages.
Nellieville, or Nervous Nellie's, is an eclectic campus covering several acres in an idyllic island setting, a one-time homestead and heirloom orchard at the edge of a spruce forest. We make about 300 jars of jam a day by hand year-round in the jelly kitchen--a tiny white Cape cottage--using mainly Maine fruits. Peter's sculpture workshop is a former general store that was moved here in several large pieces on a flatbed truck .
The grounds are meadows and woods filled with sculptures made by Peter from discarded metal, locally-milled lumber, dump-foraged material. A Western town--jail, lawyer's office, fortune teller, hotel, saloon, Chinese laundry--sits shoulder to shoulder with a Delta-style juke joint, a Deer Isle general store, a church, a Grail castle, wizard's tower, 50's garage complete with jam session, all comprise Nellieville, a lifelong work in progress.
Nervous Nellies
Jams & Jellies
Barred Island
Island Heritage Trust
Best hike on the island. Wind through mossy spruce forest (Maritime Boreal Fog Forest) and come out at a beach (bar) that connects to Barred Island at Low and Mid-tides. From the island see far out into Penobscot Bay
Isle au Haut
Acadia National Park
Isle au Haut is a 12 square mile rock half owned by Acadia National Park. The trail around Western Ear and back over Duck Harbor Mountain is one of the best coastal trails in New England. The park mostly consist of jagged coast line, rocky cliffs, mossy evergreen forest, and blue/gray cobblestone beaches. It also has a loop road that can be mountain biked and lake that can be swum. Robinson Point Lighthouse graces the northwest corner. To get there, travel on the mail boat from Isle au Haut Boat Services next door to us.
STONINGTON ICE CREAM
COMPANY
Stonington Ice Cream Company serves sixteen flavors of delicious ice cream but is also acclaimed for its award-winning lobster rolls. Stonington Ice Cream offers a menu of special sandwiches, lobster and crab quiches and salads, summer soups, and brownies and cookies. Tables are located on the deck at the edge of Stonington harbor and take-away is available.
Stonecutters Kitchen
A Seafood Restaurant on the Harbor
Sail or drive to Stonecutters Kitchen for delicious Maine seafood caught fresh from the local fishermen. You will love our stuffed lobster rolls, seafood platters and stews cooked the way they should be! We also offer pizza, sandwiches, and other dishes for the non-seafood eaters in your group. Pair your meal with a cold drink or cocktail, all while enjoying the view of Stonington Harbor. Dine in our restaurant, or enjoy our outdoor dining and fresh coastal air. In a rush? Order ahead and drop your anchor for pickup!
ARAGOSTA
Aragosta at Goose Cove sits among one of Maine’s most spectacular and pristine oceanfront locations. Our dining menu reflects the seasonal flavors of the coastal region and the creative culinary palate of Chef Finigan.
Utilizing the highest quality ingredients, our menu changes seasonally and adjusts to the availability of local products. By working directly with local fishermen and farmers, Aragosta is able to offer an ever-changing menu.
Tinder Hearth
Wood-fired, naturally-leavened bread, pizza, and pastries with organic flour and locally sourced produce.
Our bread and pastry are available Wednesday through Saturday, here at the bakery 9:00AM-1:00PM, as well as at The Blue Hill Wine Shop, the Blue Hill Food Co-Op, 44 North in Deer Isle. Pizza is available for take-out and outdoor dining on Tuesday through Friday 5pm-8pm. Check out our posts for the current menu, reservations required
Stonington
Lobster Co-op
In the summer customers enjoy coming to the Coop dock to watch the boats unload and to enjoy the spectacular view of Stonington harbor and the surrounding islands. The adventurous ones may go down onto the float to personally pick out their lobsters for dinner. Somehow a vacation in Maine isn’t complete for most people unless they’ve had a fresh caught lobster, and more than one person has commented that they’ve never had better than one from Stonington.
El El Frijoles
The seemingly simple menu, including burritos, soft tacos, empanadas and quesadillas is pretty familiar to anyone who has ever walked the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles or practically any town in the Southwest. The food that is served, however, is delightfully complex and interesting--more like what one might expect in a hip, urban eatery than from a take-out joint in a barn in the woods. The cuisine is a simple blending of traditional Mexican street food and Downeast Maine's bounty of delicious, local ingredients. The food is spicy, in that it has bold, interesting flavors, but it's not spicy hot until you visit the salsa bar and ladle on some of the fresh, house-made salsas or sample the collection of hot sauces from around the world.
IThe historic Stonington Opera House celebrated its centennial in 2012 – but that was only 100 years of the current structure. The building you see today is the third “amusement hall,” as it was originally called, on this site and wears the patina of more than a century of community history, events, and restoration.
The Stonington Opera House has been a multi-purpose building from its inception. Vaudeville, Chatauqua performances, plays, film, dances, high school graduations, town hall meetings, basketball games, and even roller skating have all found a home here.
