Subscribe to Down East Magazine
Get the best of Maine year-round.
Pack your bags — experts say Maine is the place to travel this year.
Aroostook hop growers, maltsters, and brewers are teaming up on homegrown suds.
A retro sled is a thing of beauty, and winter isn’t over until a couple dozen take to the track at Aroostook County's Mega Meltdown vintage sled race.
How a quasi-war with Canada made our state what it is today — and helped secure a lasting peace at the border.
What are Aroostook County values, and why should they matter to the
rest of us? We asked Kathryn Olmstead, a founding editor of Echoes magazine, who’s spent her career chronicling what sets the County apart.
The best of Maine delivered to your door year-round. Subscribe to Down East magazine.
Pack your bags — experts say Maine is the place to travel this year.
Aroostook hop growers, maltsters, and brewers are teaming up on homegrown suds.
A retro sled is a thing of beauty, and winter isn’t over until a couple dozen take to the track at Aroostook County's Mega Meltdown vintage sled race.
How a quasi-war with Canada made our state what it is today — and helped secure a lasting peace at the border.
What are Aroostook County values, and why should they matter to the
rest of us? We asked Kathryn Olmstead, a founding editor of Echoes magazine, who’s spent her career chronicling what sets the County apart.
The best of Maine delivered to your door year-round. Subscribe to Down East magazine.
From Our Partners
How Mainers can best approach the most imposing challenges to come.
The experts at Pinetree Garden Seeds offer tips on how to grow your own garden and why it matters.
These adventurous retirees are breaking through any conventional notions that aging requires slowing down.
It’s a summer tourism mecca, but (shhhhh!) winter may be the best time to visit Bar Harbor.
The Latest
Here is our favorite letter from January's “Where in Maine?” photo of Megunticook Lake.
The best of Down East, in your in-box. Sign up for our newsletters now.
Trending Stories
Maine's immense northernmost county is a braaap-er’s delight. Here's what you need to know.
Maine is a cross-country skier’s Shangri-La, and this list of our favorite Nordic destinations proves it.
Micmacs are learning to embroider as their ancestors did — with porcupine quills.
In the far, frozen north, we hit the hard water for the state's biggest ice-fishing derby.
The way life was — it's what came before “The Way Life Should Be.”
The Latest
Here is our favorite letter from January's “Where in Maine?” photo of Megunticook Lake.
Excerpts from a brochure for student-run clubs at the nation's second-best high school.
Pack your bags — experts say Maine is the place to travel this year.
Visit our calendar to find the best things to do, places to see, and events to attend in Maine.
This month's Where in Maine location was named for a local renaissance man.
How Mainers can best approach the most imposing challenges to come.
Food & Drink
Aroostook hop growers, maltsters, and brewers are teaming up on homegrown suds.
Food & Drink
Aroostook hop growers, maltsters, and brewers are teaming up on homegrown suds.
This Frenchville diner's cretons, poutine, and ployes are très bien.
Two Rivers Lunch, in Allagash, serves up an old family recipe.
Maine’s grande dame of fine feasts hasn’t lost a step.
Rumford's Deluxe Diner has served up bacon, eggs, and banter since 1929.
Travel & Outdoors
Learn to fly, photograph, and edit with Isaac Crabtree, of North Woods Aerial and Down East Adventures.
Travel & Outdoors
Learn to fly, photograph, and edit with Isaac Crabtree, of North Woods Aerial and Down East Adventures.
The Olympic biathlete comes home — and hits the trails.
Maine's immense northernmost county is a braaap-er’s delight. Here's what you need to know.
Maine is a cross-country skier’s Shangri-La, and this list of our favorite Nordic destinations proves it.
Local shops abound in Maine's retail mecca.
Photography
Here is our favorite letter from January's “Where in Maine?” photo of Megunticook Lake.
Reader Photos
SEE MORE READER PHOTOS
Photography
Here is our favorite letter from January's “Where in Maine?” photo of Megunticook Lake.
This month's Where in Maine location was named for a local renaissance man.
Learn to fly, photograph, and edit with Isaac Crabtree, of North Woods Aerial and Down East Adventures.
Down East staff photographer Benjamin Williamson highlights some of his favorite shots from around the state.
Here is our favorite letter from December's photo of Sunday River.
SEE MORE READER PHOTOS
Arts & Culture
Visit our calendar to find the best things to do, places to see, and events to attend in Maine.
Arts & Culture
Visit our calendar to find the best things to do, places to see, and events to attend in Maine.
In tiny Smyrna, the Amish-owned Pioneer Place carries (almost) everything you need.
Micmacs are learning to embroider as their ancestors did — with porcupine quills.
A Maine Maritime Museum exhibit reviews the state's frozen assets.
The ever-popular play has romance, comedy, and drama — and a lot Presque Isle.
207Tix
A ticket service provided by Down East
Home & Garden
CREATIVE SPIRIT
75 FRESH WAYS TO GET FESTIVE
PLUS, DESIGN AWARD WINNERS!
AND, CAN YOU SEE HAPPILY EVER AFTER IN THIS FAIRYTALE COTTAGE?
Shop our unique, exclusive collection of Maine-made goods, including selections for your home.
Sign up to receive our award-winning print magazine at your door year-round, for just $24.95.
Shop our unique, exclusive Kitchen Collection, featuring Maine-made goods from selected makers.