Everything old is new again. Kick-start summer with a road trip to an old-school motor court or a trendy retro spin-off.

By Katherine A. Cart

It’s 2021. We’ve all got cabin fever, and Maine’s got cabins! Ready for an escapist’s road trip through time? Let’s start in Kittery, the first stop after you cross the Piscataqua River and the Maine border. The year: 1947, when young Portsmouth Naval Yard worker Jim Chenell buys a square of land at 59 Old Post Road and starts banging together his Blue Roof Cabins. Chenell rents to transient shipyard workers seeking privacy and their own four walls to call, however briefly, home.

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Sandy Pines Campground. Kennebunkport, Maine. Photo by Douglas Merriam