Sunset Haven is a little slice of heaven on the eastern shore of Little Sebago Lake. Sandy beach, eastern shore, amazing sunsets!
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Sunset Haven is a lake side cottage that sleeps 8 - 10. 3 bedrooms (2 up, 1 down), 1 and half baths (both downstairs), vintage/rustic but with all of the comforts of home, including high speed internet, modern kitchen, washer/dryer & more. Available throughout the year for short term vacation rentals.
Great show on Maine Calling about water safety.
Best practices for staying safe in and around the waters in Maine—whether at the ocean, lakes, ponds, rivers or pools. Live at 11am & rebroadcast at 7pm. Call 1-800-399-3566; email [email protected]; or comment here.
Important reminder! Please stay away from our precious loons, no matter what type of boat.
The baby loons are here! The baby loons are here!
But this is a very dangerous week for them! Please recreate responsibly and avoid loons. For the majority of the year they just dive out of our way. But baby loons cannot dive and their parents will stay with them to keep them safe. With so many boats out, the water gets choppy and it's hard to see them. Please keep your eyes ahead and work around the loons. Thank you very much and have a wonderful 4th of July week!
The Rosy Maple moths are the welcoming committee this year, apparently.
A sure sign that the summer rental season begins tomorrow. 😅
Good morning from Sunset Haven. 57 degrees and breezy. It was mornings like these, fifty or so years ago, I would awake to the smell of the wood stove and, sometimes, fresh fried doughnuts at my grandparents' camp on Policeman's Cove.
The Good Ship was just here!
Also, this is real vintage shiplap siding, in spite of what those folks in Texas with the media empire try to pass off as shiplap. 😉
Hey, Sunset Havenites - Have any of you dreamed of moving to Maine or having a pretty summer home near lakes and mountains to call your own? The Parris House is for sale! We're headed for the Midcoast (the ocean calls) but our region of Western Maine offers four season recreation and the house is every bit as historic and special as Sunset Haven. Please share far and wide! If interested call Monica LaVerdiere at Bearfoot Realty in Oxford, Maine.
546 Paris Hill Rd, Paris, ME 04281 is for sale. View 109 photos of this 5 bed, 4 bath, 4500 sqft. single family home with a list price of $675000.
I'll be working some more on painting the exterior here today. It's a lot of work and we're not at all sure we'll finish it prior to our summer guest season starting on Saturday, partially because we had a rainy stretch, partially because I was teaching at a fiber art venue last weekend, and we both still work full time. However, anything that has not been painted will be done when we get the cottage back in September. As I said, it's a lot of work all the time, but it's also a labor of love, not only for Sunset Haven, but for a whole way of life.
This old cabin is over a hundred years old, as best as we can tell. It's pretty well fitted out for a lake cottage in terms of creature comforts, but it's not posh. These cottages are being razed at an alarming rate all over Maine as some people, armed with deep pockets, find these structures too crude for their fragile sensibilities. The lakefront versions of McMansions go up in place of the hand built cottages, pushing, sometimes breaking, the boundaries of shoreland zoning laws. Because the penalty for that is a fine, if the perpetrator has enough money, they just pay the fine. This endangers our lake ecosystems, which the laws are designed to protect.
Sunset Haven will not be razed and replaced with a McMansion. No shoreland zoning regulations will be broken. Not on our watch. We briefly thought about selling it because the proceeds would seriously help us in our move (currently in process) from Western Maine to the Midcoast. But after fifty plus years of my life drawing creative inspiration and serenity from this lake, I find I just can't let it go.
When we share Sunset Haven with guests, it's not a soulless rental transaction. It's the sharing of a Maine tradition that is in danger of disappearing entirely from our lakes. We know that many of you treasure this experience and return year after year. We wish you lake magic this summer.
Just an example of what NOT to do. We are very fortunate to have loons on our lake and throughout Maine. The last time I spoke to a wildlife organization in New Hampshire they told me the loons are seriously endangered there. We can't take these spectacular creatures for granted.
Notice that this is a young loon family with babies on board.
I have no problem with the public shaming of the people on this boat and I will tell you, that if I find out that anyone at Sunset Haven has behaved in this way, gone too fast in the wake zones that protect the nesting areas (and people, for that matter), or has in any other way acted like an idiot on this lake, they will never be staying at our cottage again. I could not be more serious about this.
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It has begun. This is going to be an every-night-after-work kind of job for at least a week and we're about to be accosted by a major heat wave. Better than constant rain, though, at least for this task!
It's happening.
And today's offering...wind!
Aforementioned storm, incoming.
Good afternoon, Sunset Havenites! The June camp improvement projects have begun. Let's pray to the weather gods that we can actually paint the exterior this year because last June it rained EVERY DAY.
Also, Airbnb provided a FREE photographer to us to update the photos on our listing, so take a peek!
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/16379915
Good reminder for the early season!
Woohoo! The ice cream boat is BACK on the lake this weekend. Let's give them a round of applause! 👏👏👏
Good morning and happy Memorial Day weekend everyone! This is Shaun with one last post before I figure out how to remove myself from this page.
On this exact day in 2019, I launched The Good Ship for the very first time. I was both excited and nervous not knowing what this new venture would become. Little did I know that the next five summers would end up being the most memorable of my life. Shannon and I had so much fun and met so many wonderful people that we otherwise would have never known.
Today, Connor takes over as the new captain on his very first day. I’ll be riding with him for a little while before sending him off on his own to make the same great friends and memories that he too will cherish forever. Best of luck to you, Connor! May your time on the ice cream boat be as amazing as it was for us. 🍦
Quite a mess down on Little Sebago Lake from the recent spring storm. Sunset Haven was spared everything but some downed branches and smaller trees across the driveway, but we have neighbors who currently have three trees lying on their house. We are glad there were no guests there during this whole episode. Power is still out.
Nice resource from IF&W. PLEASE check the ice conditions, especially this year, before venturing out. We do not guarantee the safety of the ice on Little Sebago at any time, especially this year.
The most up-to-date fishing news and suggestions from Maine's fisheries biologists.
Winter wonderland at Sunset Haven today.
Breathe...
We have a LOT of availability at Sunset Haven right now. We think it has to do with the ice on the lakes being iffy, but if you're not ice fishing and would just like a beautiful winter getaway, quick drive to everything to do in Portland and also to the ski mountains and trails (which ARE open and ready for you!), this is your place.
Sunset Haven - Little Sebago Lake
It's that time of year again at Sunset Haven. 🎄
In a most unusual turn of events, Sunset Haven is AVAILABLE for most of December! Take a peek and book your holiday season getaway today.
Sunset Haven - Little Sebago Lake
Another opening later this week through the weekend at Sunset Haven! Click below to reserve.
Sunset Haven - Little Sebago Lake
We just had a last minute cancellation for THIS weekend at Sunset Haven. The cottage is all clean and ready to go. If you want to snag those dates go to:
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We made Superhost again! Thank you to all of our guests!
Same, Sunset Havenites. Same. It was fun to find this on the fridge as we returned tonight after the summer rental season. It was also pretty heartwarming to read the guest book.
We thank each and every one of you for choosing Sunset Haven for making your family memories. Some of you have been here year after year for a very long time. You are part of the fabric and history of this place as we steward it for the time it's ours.
We never know how long anything will stay the same. Cherish every moment and every memory. We're so happy that Sunset Haven has been a refuge for many this summer, and kudos also for rolling with all that rain. ❤️
Sometimes you have to make your own sunshine.
OK, Sunset Havenites, the entire month of June has been like this pretty much every single day. I am not exaggerating. There has been no stretch of dry days for us to do the exterior painting or treatment of moss on the roof, and almost no sunshine. We are profoundly disappointed, but will try for the exterior work again in September when we have the camp back from the summer rental season.
We were able to make nice improvements and upgrades, though, including a brand new, full size washer and dryer, new loveseat, new curtains, additional kitchen cabinet painting, new wheels on the slider doors, new kitchen knives and cutting boards, and more. We just can't do any painting or outside building work right now and haven't been able to this entire month.
It's extremely disappointing for us, but hoping for better weather for all of you!
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Good morning from Sunset Haven. 57 degrees and breezy. It was mornings like these, fifty or so years ago, I would awake to the smell of the wood stove and, sometimes, fresh fried doughnuts at my grandparents' camp on Policeman's Cove.
And today's offering...wind!
Aforementioned storm, incoming.
Quite a mess down on Little Sebago Lake from the recent spring storm. Sunset Haven was spared everything but some downed branches and smaller trees across the driveway, but we have neighbors who currently have three trees lying on their house. We are glad there were no guests there during this whole episode. Power is still out.
Breathe...
OK, Sunset Havenites, the entire month of June has been like this pretty much every single day. I am not exaggerating. There has been no stretch of dry days for us to do the exterior painting or treatment of moss on the roof, and almost no sunshine. We are profoundly disappointed, but will try for the exterior work again in September when we have the camp back from the summer rental season. We were able to make nice improvements and upgrades, though, including a brand new, full size washer and dryer, new loveseat, new curtains, additional kitchen cabinet painting, new wheels on the slider doors, new kitchen knives and cutting boards, and more. We just can't do any painting or outside building work right now and haven't been able to this entire month. It's extremely disappointing for us, but hoping for better weather for all of you!
OK, Sunset Havenites, this is pretty much what it's looked like here the entire month of May, which is when we are able to do upgrades and maintenance to the cottage before the summer rental season. While we have been able to make a lot of nice improvements overall, this weather is why the exterior painting will not have been done and why we were not able to remove the moss on the roof with a chemical treatment. We will try again in September. We are disappointed and hoping for better weather for all of you.
On a brighter note, this is our visitor today.
Two minute fireplace tutorial on how guests can avoid inflicting this kind of damage. We'll take pics on the other side of our cleaning up/fixing all this.
Thank you to all of our guests who keep visiting and repeat-visiting at Sunset Haven. This is our 16th consecutive time as Superhosts.
A bit windy at Sunset Haven this evening.
Yes, folks, the Good Ship Gelato is on the lake!
Dear Sunset Havenites. I am scrubbing down the lazy susan for the summer. Please do not buy coffee filters, salt and pepper, or regular tea. We've got a LOT of it here!
Sunset Haven is a lake side cottage that sleeps 8 - 10. 3 bedrooms (2 up, 1 down), 1 and half baths (both downstairs), vintage/rustic but with all of the comforts of home, including high speed internet, modern kitchen, washer/dryer & more. Sandy beach, eastern shore, amazing sunsets! Available throughout the year for weekly rentals.
