Windward House-, Simply Your Home in Camden...

Our goal is a simple one: to give you the experience of staying in Circa 1854 romantic historic home, in a coastal Maine village, and be hosted by a real family while there. To accomplish our goal we live here. We cook you a homemade breakfast to order using fresh local ingredients serve gourmet coffee and home baked treats, and soft soft sheets. Enjoy quiet rooms, and the warm comfort of 500 thread count sheets, a/c, and cable t.v..

We feel that our style of inn keeping is conducive to getting to that Camden state of mind and enjoying the laid back breathtakingly natural surroundings of Camden with as little fuss as possible. To that end we concentrate on the human side of things. You will not find any manager. Except for our coffee, which is gourmet, we do not aspire to being called "gourmet". We like people, and we enjoy hosting our guests. We are not a boutique hotel; there are few nick knacks, fewer signs and no preciosity. We think those things are fine in their place, behind velvet ropes, etc, but not in your home -, which is what we seek to make for you for the special time you may be here to enjoy it. Instead of all that, you will meet us; we are parents, a husband and wife, a couple with three young children. The hand carved finnials above the door, the mouldings, and post and beam construction, the Greek revival columns, our location in the heart of the village, and a block from the Mt. Battie trailhead the clean air and calm ocean all speak for themselves. We feel they are like the beautiful lupines that bloom here, without any help they need no adornment for you to enjoy them! ...and that's what we offer.

Our Site is Designed to Help You Plan Your Trip, Either In Advance or on the Fly

Great Boston or Portland Weekend Getaway

Whether planning a short trip from Boston or Portland, for a long weekend or that once in a lifetime tour of Maine, we have tried to make our site not just another postcard for our inn, rather it is meant to be a lodging and touring web resource. We try to make it as useful and informative as possible.

Interactive Area Attractions, Places to Eat and Lodging Pages

We present trip ideas, travel packages and things to do for Camden Maine, the Penobscot Bay, Midcoast Maine area, which is central to all the great Maine coast activities. Camden is a great town, and to really enjoy it, you should stay somewhere where you can simply walk to the harbor, the shops and restaurants. That is one of the things that makes the Windward House B&B ideal and is obvious from the interactive map on our site.

Bed and Breakfast Gift Shop

We have the best coffee around, and we want our guests to be able to enjoy it at home, so we sell it online. We also sell the Windward House unique mugs, hand crafted and signed by Maine artisan Peter Jones. We also offer other local products for those wishing to enjoy a little bit of Maine at home.

New Personal Growth Travel Page

We have a Personal Growth Travel page, which has some of the information from our old soft Adventure Travel page, but with new ideas for those interested in indulging in more than just great views, fresh air and world famous seafood. So many people come here to study photography, film making, craft making, wooden boat building, sailing, pottery making painting, furniture making, rock climbing, sailing, yoga, dance and many other skills and crafts that we thought it would be useful to devote a page to places where you can acquire personal growth while in Maine.

Many Options for Short or Long Tour of Maine Coast

But if all you really want to do is enjoy a steamed Maine lobster or maybe some chowder and a view of one of the prettiest harbors in the world, just go to our places to eat page. We have an interactive map of Camden. It is a Google map where you may click on the balloon map pins and be taken to a listing below describing the map entry as well as its season, cost and whether the restaurant, shop or area attraction is walkable in Camden. We invite you to see how close the Windward House is to everything Camden Me. has to offer. Just zoom in a little and please realize that you are measuring in feet as opposed to miles! The page loads a little slowly (a technical thing we are trying to fix) since there are so many listings, but it is worth the couple extra seconds wait for it to load. We have a Maine Travel Packages page which includes Maine lodging discounts and or packaging of lodging with one of our great local attractions or services, including wine, flowers, massages, day sailing tours of Penobscot bay, Maine islands and lighthouses, and much more. Our Maine Travel Packages, Things to Do, Area Interests, Foodie Page, Personal Growth Travel pages are constantly being updated and changed, so whether you travel on the spur of the moment or are planning in advance you should check back periodically for a special promotion or deal or new thing.

Rooms Convenient to Town with Many Extras

We have pages that describe our spacious rooms and suites. We have five rooms with Queen beds, three with King Beds and one room that may be arranged with two twin beds, we have three suites and five rooms. We can accommodate adults and or children, although most of our rooms can only accommodate two adults in one bed. Please ask if you have any questions. All of our rooms have air conditioning, cable television and private baths, and all of our rooms come with a full menu breakfast in the morning, and afternoon tea, which includes cake and coffee.

No Time to Find the Wine? Order Inn Room Extras

We have stocked our bar, so you don't have to. Purchase Inn Room Extras such as wine, beer, champagne, flowers, chocolate covered strawberries, massages, - and many other items, when you reserve your room, or before you come. We offer these items at reasonable rates as a convenience for our guests.

Foodie and Gourmet Travel Pages

We have a page devoted to Foodie and Gourmet Travel which offers a discount on lodging rates.
Our region with its abundant fresh seafood, organic farmers and wild and cultivated foods attracts many gifted passionate chefs and restaurateurs and so great food and drink opportunities abound, including tastings and cooking classes; from Cellar Door Winery to Sweetgrass, wild blueberries, MOFGA, and of course the world famous Maine Lobster, pemaquid point oysters, local celebrity chefs such as Michael Salmon of Hartstone Restaurant, and chef owner Brian Hill of Francine Bistro, - great chef and former rock star, or the sophisticated Natalie’s at the Camden Harbor Inn French seasonal menu of Executive Chef Bob Krajewski, Andrews Pale Ale, brewed in local Lincolnville, the Maine Fare Maine food festival, State of Maine Cheese, Appleton Creamery, Seal Cove cheese, just to name a few…

Things to Do and Area Attractions Pages

Our Things to Do page has links to our Restaurant and Where to Eat in Camden page, our Local Camden Area Attractions page, which gives information about the locations and contact information for many local attractions, like the Schooners Olad and Schooner Surprise, the Schooner Yacht Heron or the Windjammer Nathanial Bowden, Camden Hills State Park and Mt. Battie, and much much more, within walking distance of the Windward House Bed & Breakfast.

We have a Camden Maine photo gallery which we add to periodically from our own amateur pictures taken of Camden Maine. These are images of the town of Camden, the harbor, bay, mountains, the beautiful old greek revival, federal and Victorian houses, parks and scenes of the Camden Maine area.

Interactive Camden Maine Map and Directions

We also have an interactive map that will give you directions from the address you enter to Camden Maine, to the Windward House Bed and Breakfast specifically.
Windward House is about four hours from Boston, two hours from Portland, about an hour and forty minutes from Bar Harbor, ten minutes from Rockland, an hour from Augusta, - just check our map; equidistant from Bar Harbor and Boothbay Harbor all the activities of both, with less crowds in a year round town, and one of the prettiest harbors in the world– called by many “The Jewel of the MidCoast” -, the perfect place to spend a few days.

Camden Maine a Secret Harbor and Travelers Best Kept Secret

Many people come just to see the ships in the harbor.
For those unfamiliar with the Maine Coast, Camden Maine is a unique place; many have called it a magical place. Situated in a harbor named one of the top ten prettiest in the world, and surrounded by the scenic Camden Hills State Park, on the Penobscot Bay, with the largest fleet of traditional historic wooden Schooners, the famed sailing ships of a bygone era, it truly feels like a place lost in time. There are many things to do here, and the Windward House’s location makes it the ideal place to stay when visiting Camden Maine.

Traditional Bed and Breakfast in a Traditional Maine Greek Revival House

The Windward House, a lovely old Greek Revival has stood here on High Street just one block north of the center of Camden Village diagonally across the street from Camden Harbor Park with its broad lawns, walkways and public benches overlooking the busy harbor in Penobscot Bay since 1854. Elijah Glover, a prominent local lumberman and ship builder had his shipwrights build this fine example of what some would call the characteristic style of the flowering of New England, a house that still resonates with the spirit of the optimism of our young republic -, a Maine Temple style house, as his home. A number of different families have lived in this house and by the mid ‘20’s, she began to be used as a guest house.

Kristen & Jesse Bifulco, the current innkeeper/owners moved into the Windward House in August of 2005 and have purposely sought to cultivate a warm homey feeling for their guests in the heart of Camden. They offer a menu breakfast of comfort foods and specials made with fresh local ingredients, from old family recipes and gourmet fair trade coffee. Windward features many modern amenities while maintaining her historic charm. The Innkeepers, originally from Staten Island New York, were raising their children in a suburb of Metropolitan NY when they decided they wanted to commute less, enjoy their children more, and slow down their hectic-paced lives, in a small town.

When people ask why they would give up a successful law practice and a big house in the suburbs, they say: “We wish to give our children the opportunity to enjoy the kind of childhood only a place like Maine can give. We felt that it was apt that we begin our little American lifestyle experiment in a greek revival temple-style house, in a small town surrounded by the natural beauty of coastal Maine. From the beginning of our married lives together we have tried to do things in a way that set precedents for our values as married people. We feel that our lifestyle choice resonates with a nostalgic honor for the very best intentions of our country’s beginning, romance and old fashioned values.