SebagoCumberland County's classic lake town on the western shore of Sebago Lake — Sebago Lake State Park, the Songo River lock, the Naples Causeway, and the Krainin Real Estate camp-and-cottage rental tradition

The town of Sebago sits on the western shore of Sebago Lake — 28,800 acres of cold-glacial water spanning Cumberland and Oxford counties, Maine's second-largest lake, and the municipal drinking-water source for Greater Portland. Sebago Lake State Park (1,400 acres on the lake's northwest corner near Naples) has the best public swim beach on the lake; the Songo River Lock — built in 1830 and still hand-cranked — connects Sebago to Brandy Pond and Long Lake for the Songo River Queen II's tourist run; and the cluster of camp-style rental cottages along the west shore is run mostly out of North Windham by Krainin Real Estate, the family agency that has handled Sebago Lake summer rentals since 1947. Portland Jetport (PWM) is 35 minutes south.

Our Sebago inventory leans summer-camp lakefront cottages on the west and north shores — wood-paneled four-bedroom houses with private docks, screened porches, and the loon-call-at-dusk Maine-camp tradition. Most properties run Saturday-to-Saturday in July and August (the rental-week ritual the Krainin office has held since the 1970s), with shoulder-season flexibility in May, June, September, and the foliage week. Bring a Maine inland fishing license for the lake's landlocked salmon and lake trout, expect a 30-minute drive south to Portland for dinner reservations, and budget time for the Naples Causeway ice-cream-and-mini-golf scene on a Friday night in July.