How to visit Baker Island
**NOTE: There are NO docks, floats, or easy landings on Baker Island, and NO public moorings.
It is a daytime use area only, with no overnights or fires permitted.
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Take a video tour of Baker Island with Ranger Kirk Lurvey (ANP) here. Or on You Tube here.
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The Acadia National Park used to run ranger-led tours out of Bar Harbor on Bar Harbor Whale Watch Company's Miss Samantha but this has stopped as of 2025.
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Other private water taxis can be chartered to take passengers to Baker, leaving from any harbor in the MDI area.
Visitors come frequently on their own boats, but without your own skiff/dinghy, may just anchor off shore. Many do this, though, for a peaceful afternoon, evening, or overnight.
If you do come into Baker Harbor, know that there are NO public moorings. Several organizations maintain moorings there, as well as the government; but be prepared to drop anchor rather than tie up to someone else's.
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​Some folks kayak to Baker Island-- but please, only do this if you are already an experienced sea kayaker! Similarly, crossing the bar from Islesford is a risky, slithery traverse only accomplished several days a year-- and never with dry feet.

Contacting us, on-island and off:
Please contact us in the manner most convenient for you.
Be advised that in the summer while "on island" we might go a week or more without checking our email or making it to the Post, so certainly give a call! During the day we will often turn off the ringers, but always check for messages on our breaks from work.
If it is at all urgent also use our "auxiliary phone numbers"!
When John is "on island", first check at the school house then the barn near the tower. If you still are looking, please leave a note at either location!
Often he will leave notes at the barn alerting others to where he might be working on that particular day.