Rockland ME Maine
55
Cruises availables
At departure or passage at this port
American Cruise Lines (27 Cruises)
American Legend
4 Cruises
American Pioneer
23 Cruises
Celebrity Cruises (7 Cruises)
Ponant (1 Cruises)
Seabourn Cruise Line (2 Cruises)
Silversea Cruises (2 Cruises)
Windstar Cruises (10 Cruises)
Star Pride
10 Cruises
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on the ship’s size. Larger vessels anchor in the harbour and tender passengers to the Public Landing, steps from Main Street; smaller ships tie up directly at the wharf.
Yes. From the Public Landing, shops and museums are less than a ten-minute walk. Only the breakwater, about 2 km out, calls for a taxi or a coastal walk along Samoset Road.
Allow an hour and a half for the Farnsworth Art Museum, a wander down Main Street with a stop at the Maine Lighthouse Museum, then a lobster roll on the waterfront. If the sea is calm, swap the museum for the walk out along the breakwater.
Nearly a kilometre and a half of granite blocks laid across the sea in a straight line to a red brick lighthouse that has kept watch since 1902. Access is from Jameson Point park and the round trip takes a good hour.
Not always. The blocks are wide but uneven, and on rough days spray sweeps the crest: pick a calm sea and sure-footed shoes. The reward is a sweeping view of the Rockland rooftops and the Camden hills.
American art and, above all, the Wyeth dynasty: N.C. the epic illustrator, Andrew the painter of rural solitude, Jamie the portraitist. The Wyeth Center occupies a former church next door, and the collection is in constant conversation with the Maine landscapes you have just sailed past.
Because the claim holds up at the table: wharf shacks or award-winning bistros, each serves its own version of the lobster roll, generous and landed that morning. In early August the Maine Lobster Festival turns the waterfront into an enormous open-air kitchen.
Maine’s fleet of traditional tall ships, home-ported in Penobscot Bay and cruising among the islands all summer. Watching them come back to anchor at the end of the day is part of the show.
The US dollar and English. Credit cards are accepted everywhere and restaurant tipping runs 15 to 20 percent.
June through October. July and August give Penobscot Bay its full light and the windjammer season; September and October bring Midcoast colour with fewer people on Main Street.
