Four miles from Popham Beach...
a sweet retreat on the Kennebec Estuary
In Phippsburg, Maine’s historic Parker Head neighborhood, the 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom Sam Day Hill House sits on 3.5 acres that stretches from woods and granite ledge to lawn and gardens to the water. The moment we saw the wrap-around porch atop the long, winding driveway we knew we’d found our fairytale home. Screened in the spring and summer, the teak porch is a haven for birding, reading, or simply watching the tides roll in. Less than an hour from Portland and 20 minutes from Bath, the Sam Day Hill House is a peaceful retreat close to many Maine gems (Popham Beach State Park, the Maine Maritime Museum, Morse Mountain, Fort Popham, Reid State Park…) We hope you love our Phippsburg hideaway as much as we do.
Check our availability calendar at Airbnb, contact us with any questions or to book directly (Steph or Rob @ hiddenmaine.com)
RARE OPPORTUNITY - Private listing on a remote pond near the Canadian border. This is the only cabin with a grandfathered location on the lake, a 320 acre Great Pond, and the 1.15 acre property includes 290 feet of shoreline. There are four neighbors, each over a mile apart. The lake sees an average of one boat per day. The cabin is five miles in on dirt roads. And while it feels like the end of the earth, it’s only 30-40 minutes to Sugarloaf Mountain.
Vacationing in Phippsburg, Maine
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Maine's Best Beaches
Few beaches in New England have the vast, desert feel of Popham Beach and Seawall Beach at low tide. Though a State Park with bathrooms, Popham Beach is also a wild place where a river drastically changes the beach when storms rage. Forty minutes away Reid State Park is another ruggedly beautiful beach. While summer brings many visitors and full parking lots to the state parks, the off-season brings solitude to these grand stretches of sand where you sometimes see more seals than humans.
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Paradise For The Birds
Winter, spring, summer and fall, the birds love the Kennebec River Estuary, and we love watching them from the wrap-around porch at the Sam Day Hill House. Bald Eagles hang out in the trees, Great Blue Herons stalk the marsh, Osprey fly by at sunrise and sunset. Unidentifiable duck butts are a common sighting. Buffleheads, warblers, plovers, egrets, kingfishers… it’s a seasonal bird parade. Bring your binoculars! We have field guides inside. Phippsburg’s trails and beaches make birders out of all of us.
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More Maine Than Maine
DownEast Magazine once described Phippsburg and neighboring Georgetown as “more Maine than Maine.” Is it the “Welcome to Phippsburg” sign on a propped up wooden dingy? Maybe the likelihood of running across someone worming at sunset at the town beach? or the sight of lobster boats cruising out into the rising sun at the mouth of the Kennebec River? Or the sinuous roads that follow Maine’s meandering coastline… and make you want to see what’s around the bend.
