Summer on Great Pond: The Ultimate 7-Day Itinerary from Cottages of MaineAuto Draft

There’s a reason people come to Great Pond once and keep coming back for the next decade. The 8,239-acre lake at the heart of the Belgrade Lakes region in central Maine has a quality that’s difficult to name but impossible to miss. Maybe it’s the scale of it wide enough that you can paddle for […]
A Spring Weekend at the Lake: What Belgrade Lakes Looks Like in May

Most people think of Maine in July. School’s out, the sun is high, and the waitlist for lakefront rentals fills up months in advance. But ask anyone who has visited the Belgrade Lakes region in May, and they’ll tell you the same thing: spring weekend is the season everyone else is sleeping on. If you’ve […]