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Quiet secluded log cabin; the cabin is part of a 37 acre waterfront complex.

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Exterior
Exterior
Outdoor dining
Property grounds

Reviews

9.8 out of 10
Exceptional
3 bedrooms1 bathroomSleeps 4

Popular amenities

  • Barbecue
  • Internet access
  • Air-conditioning
  • Kitchen
  • Refrigerator
  • Washing machine

Explore the area

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Shapleigh, ME
  • Place, Mousam Lake
    ‪1 min drive‬
  • Place, Square Pond
    ‪2 min drive‬
  • Place, Ogunquit Beach
    ‪50 min drive‬
  • Airport, Portland, ME (PWM-Portland Intl. Jetport)
    ‪53 min drive‬

Rooms & beds

3 bedrooms (sleeps 4)

Bedroom 1

1 Queen Bed

Bedroom 2

2 Single Beds

Bedroom 3

2 Single Beds

1 bathroom

Bathroom 1

Toilet · Shower only

Spaces

Porch or lanai
Kitchen
Dining area

About this property

Quiet secluded log cabin; the cabin is part of a 37 acre waterfront complex.

17 individual & separated cabins share the acreage and 1500 feet of waterfront (ours is @ the end of a road, quite private & no cars driving by!). Beautiful trails for hiking/mountain biking as well as winter snow-shoeing. The complex is on Goose Pond ( which connects to 900 acre Mousam Lake)--our dock is great for swimming, fishing, kayaking, paddle boarding, etc. Two kayaks are provided for your enjoyment on Goose Pond & Mousam Lake!The cabin has one bedroom with queen bed, 2 loft bedrooms-each with 2 twin beds, living-room with satellite TV, ample kitchen, full-sized dining area, full bathroom (shower), and large sun glass/screen in porch with sitting & dining area--with nice view of Kettle Pond & surrounding woods. Shapleigh is a small quiet town--yet only 15 min. to all your shopping needs.

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House Rules

Check in after 4:00 PM
Minimum age to rent: 25
Check out before 11:00 AM
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Children

Children allowed: ages 0–17
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Events

No events allowed
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Pets

No pets allowed
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Smoking

Smoking is not permitted

Check-out instructions

The host requires you to complete the following before checking out:
Strip any used beds and gather used towels
Lock the doors
Failure to complete these may result in a negative review from the host.

Important information

You need to know

Property # 1074389vb
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
On-site parties or group events are strictly prohibited
Host has indicated that there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property
Host has indicated that there is a smoke detector on the property

About the area

Shapleigh

Shapleigh is home to this cabin. Mary Grant Nature Preserve and Goat Hill Trail reflect the area's natural beauty and area attractions include Acton Fairgrounds and Bowl A Rama.
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Shapleigh, ME

What's nearby

  • Mousam Lake - 1 min drive - 0.8 km
  • Square Pond - 2 min drive - 2.9 km
  • Old Orchard Beach - 45 min drive - 67.5 km
  • Old Orchard Beach Pier - 49 min drive - 69.0 km
  • Ogunquit Beach - 50 min drive - 60.5 km

Getting around

  • Sanford, ME (SFM-Sanford Seacoast Regional) - 29 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Shapleigh Corner Store - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪Willy's Ale House - ‬9 min drive
  • ‪Bob’s Ugly Bagels - ‬9 min drive
  • ‪Ted's Fried Clams - ‬10 min drive
  • ‪Iron Tails Saloon - ‬10 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is Quiet secluded log cabin; the cabin is part of a 37 acre waterfront complex. pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at Quiet secluded log cabin; the cabin is part of a 37 acre waterfront complex.?

On-site parking is available at the property.

What time is check-in at Quiet secluded log cabin; the cabin is part of a 37 acre waterfront complex.?

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Quiet secluded log cabin; the cabin is part of a 37 acre waterfront complex.?

Checkout is at 11:00 AM.

Where is Quiet secluded log cabin; the cabin is part of a 37 acre waterfront complex. located?

Situated in Shapleigh, this cabin is within 2 miles (3 km) of Mousam Lake, Square Pond and Treasure Island. Shapleigh Fields is 2.4 mi (3.9 km) away.

Reviews

9.8

Exceptional

Reviews are presented in chronological order, subject to a moderation process, and verified unless otherwise labelled.
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Rating 10 - Excellent. 50 out of 54 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 3 out of 54 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 0 out of 54 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 54 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 54 reviews

9.6/10

Cleanliness

10/10

Check-in

10/10

Communication

9.8/10

Location

9.8/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

Verified

10/10 Excellent

linda c.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
This is a charming little cabin in the woods on a lake, beautifully furnished and with every convenience! Our family had a fantastic vacation here, we couldn’t have asked for more. The hosts were available and wonderful!!!
Stayed 9 nights in Dec 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Jane E.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Perfect location. We absolutely love staying here. Easy check in and check out. We will be back again next year.
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

brenda l.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Always a pleasent stay. We've stayed here before and always know what to expect.Peaceful and quiet. A short drive to most necessities. We love this cabin!
Stayed 14 nights in Sep 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Monica M.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
The cabin is adorable; tastefully decorated and includes all the comforts of home. It is situated in a peaceful area, overlooking a quiet pond and typical Maine woods. Perfect for a relaxing vacation.
Stayed 9 nights in Aug 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Randy H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, location, listing accuracy
Disliked: Communication

Great little cabin

Clean beautiful cabin in the woods. Our 3rd stay and it is a nice place in the Maine woods. Highly recommend.
Stayed 8 nights in Jun 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Yolanda C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Restful Tetreat

Wonderful location for rest and contemplation.
Stayed 11 nights in Aug 2024
Verified

8/10 Good

Jane E.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Log cabin

Centrally located to everything a Maine vacation should include. Quiet and cozy.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Scott K.

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

our stay at the cabin

Everything worked out very well, check in was a breeze and the cabin was great. thanks scot & Kathy
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Randy H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great cabin great area

Beautiful cabin in the woods. Jen is very responsive and helpful. We’ve stayed there several times and we keep going back! I hate to give it a glowing review because that will make it more popular and harder to book! Thanks Jen and Donna for your beautiful cabin.
Stayed 13 nights in Jul 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Scott K.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Wedding Weekend

Everything went well this past weekend, as always enjoyed being back at the cabin. Thanks Scott & Kathy
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Catherine C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

We LOVED IT

I am literally ready to book for the spring and summer next year. We had a BLAST.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2019
Response from VrboOwner on 10 June 2020
So glad y’all enjoyed your stay, and welcome you next year🦞‼️
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Jane E.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Maine 2024

This was our second year at this location and it could not have been better. The area is saturated with beauty. We hiked, kayaked, and had a wonderful time with family. We look forward to returning next year.
Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Dennis G.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Reunion

Awesome
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Dave T.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect quiet family getaway.

Beautiful cabin located on a very quiet and peaceful set of ponds. Plenty to do at the lakes, kayaking, fishing, swimming, hiking and more. The whole process was so smooth and easy. The host was great to work with and responded almost immediately to any question I had. Would highly recommend to anyone looking for a peaceful getaway to enjoy the outdoors.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

guy e.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Quiet and homey cabin

Well equipped and decorated. Friendly, helpful hosts who were easy to reach and responsive to our needs/questions. We have rented many cabins (and owned one) and this is one of the best. We visit family in ME and NH regularly and it is nice to have the waterfront area for activities for all ages. We hope to return on future visits!
Stayed 8 nights in May 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

brenda l.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

We love this cabin.

The perfect place for us to relax as well as visiting friends and family who are in the area. This is our second visit. The cabin is welcoming, clean and well equipped. Brett is very accommodating and always available for questions and suggestions for activities in the area. Needless to say, we will be back again.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 21 Sept 2022
Thx so much for your kind remarks Brenda—-we’re so glad that our cabin meets ur needs & wants, and thanks for caring for the place so well during your ‘watch’!
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Julie N.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

relaxation

This cabin was a very relaxing time for my family. We needed to just unwind and it was a quiet retreat for us. The cabin was very clean and beautiful. The sun room (porch) was my favorite place to sit and enjoy morning coffee. Thank you for a wonderful week!
Stayed 8 nights in Jun 2023
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Lawrence T.

Liked: Check-in, communication
Disliked: Location, listing accuracy
The cabin was very nice but the outside was terrible very steep. I was very upset with the dock it was a shared dock and it was quite a ways from where we were staying and also too steep for me to even get down to it. Not to mention the gas grill was very dirty and the 2 propane tanks were empty. So we rented it for a week we got there Sunday and came home Tuesday we had the place to Saturday so we cut our vacation short. We will not be back again to that place and also their was nothing there for my grandkids
Stayed 6 nights in Sep 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Carl S.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Awesome vacation

This is our third year. We love the cabin and location. We feel at home. Very peaceful and a great getaway in nature. Our last morning we were blessed by a visit of a mother deer and two babies. Can't wait for next year. Carl
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Doreene M.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Relaxing in the woods

We had a wonderful stay at the cabin. I was scheduled for surgery right after vacation, so the serenity of the place was perfect! It was clean and beautiful inside and out. The only thing I would complain about was the height of the bed! I'm 4'10"!! lol Thanks for a great time!
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023
Verified

8/10 Good

Christopher C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location
This was a lovely cabin. We had a wonderful time and really got to relax. Facts: 1. Secluded, as it was listed and which is what we were looking for, it was not. There's a cabin about 10 steps away and another on the other side of it. The kitchen and side windows both look directly at their bedroom. No one was there for the week we were, and we're so thankful for that! 2. Internet is slow, which made streaming difficult. 3. In the listing, the hosts talk about the lake, community, and "our dock." We definitely read it as theirs (as if speaking in the first person). It is not; it's the community's. You have to drive or walk around on the road or through the woods on a little trail. They have no direct access to the lake. 4. There's no community trash dumpster. You have to take your trash to the transfer station, on Tuesday and/or Thursday, if you need to throw it out. Observations and Preferences1. No microwave. Sucks when you eat out and have leftovers. We made do, just something to be aware of. 2. Light switch in the bedroom had to be figured out. We didn't realize until the first wakeup that my phone was plugged into the outlet for the switch. It's on the other side of the room at the head of the bed. 3. That sunset is directly into the house through the sunroom deck. Beautiful, but blinding. No curtains or shades made it impossible to enjoy sitting there.
Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2025
Verified

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Check-in, communication, location

quiet getaway in nature

There were some inconsistencies between the listing and the property owners' expectations as far as the condition we needed to leave the cabin in upon checking out. We were asked by the owner to wash our own towels and sheets. For the price I feel that all cleaning should have been covered by the owners, especially considering that we were responsible and did not leave the place a mess. We also found out upon arrival that we were responsible to take our own trash and recycling to a waste center. It would have been nice to see that in the listing instead of assuming it'd be provided. It was doubly inconvenient in that the waste center was not open on our departure day and we were supposed to be quarantining and not technically allowed to leave the cabin grounds. The owner let us leave our last day's trash but I felt that the expectations could have been clearer as many of the other listings we viewed were. Advice to the owners, please update the listing to reflect exactly what you require your renters to be responsible including some cleaning and trash. Also, advice to future renters, be advised nearly every dish in the kitchen was filthy and we spent the first 3 hours hand washing and drying. Cups in the cupboard lined with sticky orange juice, pans greasy and stuck on food. I expect that isn't a reflection on the owners but rather the previous renter. Also the bathroom floor was sticky and brown, like faint dried on mud or something, so I washed that upon arrival. This is my first time renting a privately owned cabin so maybe it is normal to find it dirty and to find actual expectations varying from the online listed ones. Just pointing it out in case anyone cares to know. Overall we had a great time and are already considering going back next year, and we recommend this cabin and the area to others.
Stayed 6 nights in Sep 2020
Response from VrboOwner on 9 Oct 2020
Maine had an ‘open-door’ policy towards guests from ur state at the time of ur visit—u we’re not required to quarantine or be tested for covid in order to visit. As regards trash disposal; Maine is a rural state, frequented by wild animals—u will notice that outdoor trash receptacles are almost non-existent for that reason. Our guests (and other rentals) are asked to drive their waste and drop it in the bin at the town waste-center (open 4 days a week—-a mile away)—in order to avoid outdoor waste-cans. Our listing mentioned supplying linens —and ur correct, it didn’t mention that you’d have to launder them during ur stay. We didn’t mention that because we assumed folks would understand that—sorry. We attempt to keep our rates ‘affordable’ as well as the ‘cleaning fee’ (which is about half of what others charge in the vicinity). Do hope ur next vacation rental meets ur expectations!
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Jed J.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

The best!

This is our second time staying at Bret and Donna’s cabin. It is hands down the best vacation rental we have stayed in. We ran into a slight, unavoidable maintenance issue this time around, and Bret was immediately on it and got it fixed right away, frequently checking in and making sure we were comfortable. The location is quiet and peaceful, and the cabin itself is clean and well-maintained. Our only regret was that we were so busy visiting friends and family that we didn’t get to enjoy more time in the cabin itself!
Stayed 11 nights in Sep 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Harry H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Best Cabin Yet

This was our 2nd year of renting a cabin in the Shapleigh area, and it was, by far, the best experience. If you love knotty pine, you’ll love this place. The cabin, parking and access were all great. The owner was very informative and helpful. Thanks.
Stayed 14 nights in Sep 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Michele C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Relaxing and fun log cabin experience

My husband and I, along with our 17 yr old twins had a fabulous time in Bret's Maine log cabin. We had been a little worried that our teens might get bored, but no such problem. We enjoyed hanging out in the homey cabin, reading, playing games and having cookouts. We also loved the peaceful pine forest setting, hiking paths, kayaking and swimming off the dock. A pure dream vacation! Beautiful memories made that will last a life time!
Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2022

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