Accommodations

The rustic feel of the 1870 Monhegan House (1 Main St., 207/594-7983, www.monheganhouse.com [1], $135–165) is tempered by down-home accoutrements in the guest rooms, including gauzy white curtains and antique Victorian furniture. Guests congregate around a stone fireplace in the lobby or bump toothbrushes in the shared bathrooms on the second floor. Ask for a room with a lighthouse view.

Flags wave from the turret of the Island Inn (on the harbor, 207/596-0371, www.islandinnmonhegan.com [2], $195–255), a grand turn-of-the-century hotel overlooking a harbor full of lobster boats. Inside are painted reproductions of the inn by Andrew Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, and other Monhegan [3] artists. The inn’s 34 rooms are simple without being rustic, featuring painted floors and furniture and fluffy duvets to keep guests warm on chilly Maine [4] nights (like most of the accommodations on Monhegan, the inn is unheated).

For a bit more seclusion, Brackett’s Oar House (3 Fish Beach Ln., 207/594-9151, www.fishbeachmonhegan.com [5], $145) has an upper-floor apartment with a private balcony overlooking Fish Beach, the lighthouse, and the lobster boats bobbing in the harbor below. The apartment includes a full kitchen and outdoor grill. Its owner, Lisa Brackett, also rents other cottages around the island for longer stays.