Oceansedge
For more than 35 years, Oceansedge has been the most distinguished oceanfront vacation rental property among its 1,700 competitors in a market area that embraces Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, Mt. Desert Island, and the full sweep of Maine’s Gold Coast.
Discriminating families from throughout the US and abroad – including persons of national and world renown professional distinction – have chosen Oceansedge for more than few reasons including the following:
- the property’s mystique for being located in the presently most historic, most prestigious, and most private residential neighborhood in Bar Harbor – a seacoast town of legendary social stature during the Gilded Age before WWI when summer residents of national financial and social prominence constructed august mansions on that same peninsula above Hulls Cove and farther along Bar Harbor’s observable shoreline.
- its privacy behind a walled and gated and lanterned entrance on a private and posted road within an also private enclave of a dozen hillside oceanfront homes, in a 50-acre peninsula gesturing toward Acadia’s Cadillac mountain range and the Porcupine Islands and the North Atlantic beyond.
- the property’s safe (no dangerous cliffs, riptides, or the like), accessible (including for kayaking as preferred by most guests), visually stunning, and south-facing oceanfront shoreline, plus nearly ever- present ocean breezes.
- from a gardened backyard brick patio, and from 2nd-story bedroom and kitchen-adjacent and on-the- ocean decks, the panoramic ocean views by day of the Town’s active harbor and ocean reaches; and twilight and nighttime views of ochre moonrises at the ocean horizon, star showers, and sometimes the Northern Lights.
- the property’s environs (the ocean frontage, a forested brook and a chain of ponds, orchards, and abundant gardens and broad lawns) which are almost uniquely bucolic within the Town; those surroundings make for a chief joy for our guests: nearly tame deer and fawns, rare birds and ducks and their ducklings, endlessly playful and engaging chipmunks and red squirrels, and other wildlife which are both abundant and congenial year-round neighbors and everyday backyard visitors.
- the panache of the home itself which is formal, traditional, elegant, and meticulously appointed, but Maineishly unpretentious and sunny and welcoming as well; a commodious house of 4 bedrooms (one bedroom has 4 beds) and 4.5 en suite bathrooms plus walk-in closets, 4 superlative libraries, a large oceanview kitchen with skylights and a cathedral ceiling, 6 eating areas (2 inside, 4 outside), along with excellent Wi-Fi reception and as many as 7 smart televisions, and 6 oceanview and south- facing French doors on two levels.
- the property’s proximity (1 mile) to the Reception Center of the 40,000-acre Acadia National Park and its 30 miles of car-less “carriage roads”, thus reachable directly from the property by bicycle.
- its reputation as possibly the longest running vacation rental in Bar Harbor, continuously family- owned, putatively the only property among Homeaway’s innumerable listings to have had perfect 5- star ratings every year since the inception of that company, and the grateful recipient of the more than 100 endorsements offered in recent years by past guests as to be seen in this web site.
