Acorn Guest House
The Acorn Guest House offers guests a budget-friendly accommodation with access to all the Oakland House has to offer— hiking trails, beaches, gardens, concierge services—but with the benefit of a stand-alone house perfect for families or guests on a common retreat.
There are two rooms on the first floor, along with an eat-in living room, bathroom with tub/shower and large, fully stocked kitchen. Four bedrooms make up the entire second floor and the third has a large bathroom with a vintage clawfoot tub and a sitting room/library. The large porch overlooks the entire property, inn and gardens.
In recent years, the Acorn was rented per room, hostel-style, but this practice ceased during the pandemic. Still, we kept the names of the separate rooms, all named after local wildlife: Bear Cave (with one twin bed), Eagle Aerie (two twins), Wren’s Nest and Fisher Cat’s Den (each have full beds), Romp of Otters (queen bed) and Banditry of Chickadees (our largest room with a queen bed and a twin).
The Acorn has been a hard-working member of the Oakland House family for years. It was built as a private home, became an “ice house” to store blocks of frozen pond water later shipped to cities for refrigeration, once a casino and now a most welcoming vintage Maine home for guests to spend several nights or an extended vacation.
