Bar Harbor Panoramic Oceanfront for Your Whole Family! Kids and Dogs Love It!

Rising Sun Cottage is located right in Bar Harbor and features six beautiful bedrooms and spectacular ocean views, making it the perfect choice for large families up to 12 people. Our guests are often enjoying a multi-generational vacation together, and the spacious living room with its two decks allows everyone to gather around to talk, enjoy their meals, and share stories and pictures, all while soaking in the breathtaking sight of the open ocean.

Nestled at the end of a quiet private road, Rising Sun offers truly exceptional tranquility and convenience, creating a private retreat for everyone while being just minutes away from the entrance to Acadia National Park. Families can also easily enjoy all of the dining and shopping experiences for which the Village of Bar Harbor is famous, because you’re just a five-minute drive to the center of town from the house!

With its perfect blend of comfort and stunning scenery, Rising Sun Cottage is designed to create unforgettable family moments. Whether you're enjoying a sunset from one of the decks or gathered together in the living room, Rising Sun promises an extraordinary stay for all generations.

During your vacation, you and your family will appreciate these other features as well:

-- We make your arrival as relaxed as possible, providing clear directions to the house and easy access inside, with the warmth of Rising Sun marking the end of the journey and the beginning of your vacation.

-- The large and open living room and its attached decks in Rising Sun are set up for family dining, which allows everybody to gather together and embrace the sea in all its moods. Morning coffee, afternoon tea, evening cocktails, and then dinner!

-- High speed cable internet; free Wi-Fi, distributed throughout the house by an Orbi mesh network; free land-line telephone service; excellent cell service; and a TV in each bedroom.

-- Comfortable couches and chairs in which you can read, chat, nap… all while watching the spectacular ocean view. Your family can also join together in the living room over our many puzzles and board games.

-- The kitchen at Rising Sun is modeled after those found in Michelin-starred Manhattan restaurants. Guests who enjoy cooking will fall in love with our kitchen and its sharp knives! They'll also find a pantry that is well-stocked with herbs, spices, salts, peppers, olive oils, vinegars, and more!

-- Kebo Valley Golf Club is a seven-minute drive from our home, and there are tennis courts just five minutes away.

-- Rising Sun is at the end of a private narrow road that's as pretty as any of Acadia's carriage roads. When our own family is at the house, we walk it every morning with our dogs and love to walk at night under the stars.

-- The surrounding land has magnificent oak and maple trees, and wildlife galore! Our guests have seen deer, turkeys, foxes, eagles, osprey, cormorants, seals, marmots, and more!

We hope you and your family will decide to experience Rising Sun for your Bar Harbor vacation! If you do, our professional cleaning staff will have cleaned the house thoroughly before you arrive. All the bed linens and towels will have been thoroughly washed and sanitized in the ozone-infused washing machines and dryers used by the best hotels in Bar Harbor.

To complete the amenities, Rising Sun provides five more especially important features, and the lack of even one of these can quite significantly impact your family’s Bar Harbor vacation.

1. Central Air Conditioning:
We’re naturally cooled by our proximity to the ocean, but when that’s not enough, our central A.C. keeps the entire house perfectly comfortable even during the hottest days. Imagine a week’s vacation when you come home to a hot, stuffy house each day. Then imagine coming home to Rising Sun!

2. Air Filtration System:
When we used to rent homes in Bar Harbor for our own vacations, we all too often encountered houses with a whiff of mustiness or even mildew or mold. It's not enjoyable and you’ll often find this in some of the older homes in Bar Harbor and Acadia. But whatever the weather is like outside during your vacation, you’ll have the most pure and delightful ocean air in Rising Sun.

3. Plenty of Hot Water:
You're quite unlikely to find this luxury anywhere else!

4. Whole House Emergency Generator:
The power supply on Mount Desert Island and in Bar Harbor isn't the most dependable. This isn't a concern you'll have at Rising Sun, though, because our generator will easily power the whole house, including our air conditioning.

5. An Exceptional Location:
To get to the village of Bar Harbor, rental homes in Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Pretty Marsh, or Seal Cove require a drive of 25-45 minutes each way, and oceanfront homes that are located right in the village of Bar Harbor are usually separated from the Bay by the public Ocean Path. In contrast, Rising Sun's exceptional location combines privacy and direct access to spectacular oceanfront with just a five-minute drive into Bar Harbor!

Because we know that most guests have traveled long distances to get to Rising Sun, we want your arrival to be stress-free, exciting, and relaxing. We hope to set the stage for a vacation that's the best you’ve ever had!

This is why we have our housekeeper, Tina, welcome you upon your arrival. Whatever makes settling into Rising Sun easier for you and your family -- helping with your luggage; making sure everybody is signed in to our Wi-Fi and Bluetooth sound system; providing toiletries, slippers, or other items for those who might have forgotten theirs; making a pot of hot tea or iced lemonade for your family -- Tina will be there to help settle you in.

She’ll show you all around the house, the land, the oceanfront, and introduce you to the many enjoyable, unique features of the house and land that you might not notice otherwise. Before she leaves, Tina wants your whole family to feel fully at home!

Then, for the rest of your vacation, your hosts Ned and Nick will be available by phone, e-mail, or text (8:00 A.M. until 11:00 P.M.) to answer questions, offer recommendations, or handle any problems that might arise.

And finally, because there are so many choices of sights to see and activities to enjoy in Bar Harbor and Acadia, we offer our guests their own customized “Best Possible Day” planning guide, with their own private pages in our Rising Sun guest website. We've developed this over the years, and by combining our own extensive knowledge of Bar Harbor and Acadia with the activities, sights, and types of restaurants each guest is interested in learning more about, we can help every guest in your party enjoy every day of their vacation to the fullest!

We hope that you and your family will come and enjoy a week or two of Bar Harbor paradise at Rising Sun Cottage. If you have dogs, please bring them. They'll love Rising Sun, Bar Harbor, and Acadia National Park!