The Rusticator is a charming two story home from 1896. Named for the visitors to Bar Harbor in the late 1800s, The Rusticator is a lovely cottage located in the heart of downtown Bar Harbor. The Rusticator is our family home and available for rentals when we leave to explore other parts of the world.
This quaint property, on a quieter side street, is in walking distance to the sand bar, town beach, grocery stores, restaurants, The Abbe Museum and village green. Nicely appointed with hardwood floors and natural sunlight, The Rusticator has a spacious backyard with a lawn, garden and deck for outdoor grilling and dining.
There are three bedrooms upstairs two with QUEEN beds and third a KING bed. There is a well equipped open kitchen, dining room, mudroom and living room with a beautiful decorative fireplace on the first floor. There are 2 bathrooms (upstairs has a claw foot tub and basic stand up shower and downstairs with only a basic standup shower). Other amenities include a flat screen TV with DVD player, access to WIFI and Netflix, washer/dryer in the basement, dishwasher, microwave, gas BBQ and a backyard. We provide bedding, bath and beach towels. We have off street parking for 2 stacked cars in the back of our house. Permit parking is enforced between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday on our street.
Leave your car behind and walk to everything downtown, including whale watches & sea kayaking tours, shops and much more. Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park offer visitors a variety of activities, including hiking, biking, boating, lake swimming, carriage road walks, horse back riding, deep sea fishing! Sail on the Margaret Todd, take a Jackson Lab visitors tour, enjoy tea and popovers at the Jordan Pond House, golf at KEBO a PGA top-rated course or play tennis at the town courts. Kids activities include Sand Beach, miniature golf, the town green, Acadia Fun park and lots of ice cream shops!
We DO NOT have air conditioning, but two bedrooms have ceiling fans and we have various window and stand alone fans if it gets too hot.