SANFORD, Maine — You can leave your tents and sleeping bags at home this summer. Huttopia Southern Maine already has a spot ready for you, once the “glamping” ground reopens on Sand Pond Road in May.

The Kennebec Land Trust has become a landlord for the first time in its 30-year history, offering two renovated West Gardiner cabins for rent from July through October this year. The Winthrop-based ...

The Kennebec Land Trust’s Wakefield Wildlife Sanctuary is quiet this time of year — the 115 acres on Cobbossee Stream in West Gardiner don’t have any developed trails yet, or even a parking area. But ...

Chalk it up to better marketing, milder winters, some new outdoor-rec opportunities, or just a boost in hardiness among would-be tourists, but in the last six years, overnight visitation to Maine has ...