West Bay Acadia Camping

Welcome to West Bay Acadia Camping – Elegant Simplicity

This is our home.  When you come visit, please enjoy it as your home for the time you are with us.  We are not the typical overnight tourist campground, nor are we a concrete country club resort.  We are “real” Maine, with luxuries.  Our campground is nestled on the beautiful coast of rural Schoodic Peninsula.  Our campsites are large with state-of-the-art amenities, including WiFi that zooms, and the most delicious sparkly clear water you’ll ever taste.  We hope you will find the magic that we have found here.

The graphical map below shows the layout of our campground.  Each tier rises above the next by about 10-15 feet giving you a glorious view of the Bay from most sites.

The land disturbed by the construction process is replanted with Dutch White Clover and native wildflowers, including Purple Aster, California Bluebell, Indian Blanket, Shasta Daisy, California Poppy, Black Eyed Susan, Wild Perennial Lupine and Purple Coneflower.  Carolina and other varieties of raspberries are planted on Raspberry Ridge.  Highbush blueberries were planted in 2022 to complement the natural Maine blueberries elsewhere.  In Fall of 2022 we planted 500 daffodil bulbs and will be planting more each year (if the critters don’t eat them).  Rose Rugosa, lilacs, forsythia, beach plum, holly, barberry, and other bushes are planted throughout the campground.  Our dream is to create a healthy, sustaining nature preserve for our critters and us to enjoy.

We have two wildlife corridors.  Between Tier 1 and the coast you may see wildlife activity mainly at dusk and very early morning.  There is another corridor before you enter the campsite area that is also active in the afternoons.  You may see deer crossing the road as you come back from your hiking adventures at Acadia National Park.  Generally, deer are coming south after having a delicious dinner at our neighbor’s garden!  Our wildlife are active at night as you will see in the morning by their footprints.  Deer particularly love our wild apple trees in the spring.  We do have a resident moose that is seriously timid.  Extremely rarely is he/she seen but has been heard in the woods.  We also have a resident black bear who has been seen walking the main driveway but not to worry – he/she is more afraid of you than you are of it!  This is also home to porcupines, groundhogs, chipmunks, turkey, coyote, harbor seals, bald eagles, and many more critters.  Listening to the birds is particularly enjoyable while sitting on the swing at Peachie Point.  If you use the Merlin Bird App you will be amazed at the variety of birds around you.

West Bay is perfect for kayaking and SUPs.  We have three tamdem kayaks and two paddle boards available for rent.   Please let us know of your interest.  West Bay is a tidal estuary.  Twice a day the tide rolls in, covering the mudflats and lapping at the rock and marsh edge.  Generally, the surface is protected from the winds making gliding over the water as smooth as can be.  A true joy!