Rangeley, Maine, Real Estate


RangeleyMERealEstate currently has available several of the most spectacular undeveloped building lots in the region. In Rangeley, the beautiful Sanctuary Farm tract has two field lots remaining, overlooking and with deeded access to Rangeley Lake, as well as two shorefront lots right on Hunter Cove. Right next door, also on Hunter Cove, we are now offering a once-in-a-lifetime 40 acres and 1,000 feet on Rangeley Lake. In nearby Sandy River Plantation, two large lots (22 and 70 acres) are available on the Sandy Rivers Ponds, each with hundreds of feet of waterfront and a magnificent opportunity for a completely private home, camp or compound. Click the appropriate links for details:

Sanctuary Farm
Hunter Cove
Sandy River Sunrise

About Rangeley
Rangeley is too far away, too quiet, too boring, too devoid of the night life one can find near Winnepesaukee or Sebago or on Cape Cod. It's just awful.

Unless you can tolerate swimming, boating, hiking, canoeing, kayaking, cross-country or downhill skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, hunting, fishing, and an abundance of wildlife, or just happen to fall in love with the endless and breathtaking landscape, there's no reason to go anywhere near the place.

We're in the western mountains of Maine, some 16 miles from Quebec. If you have been to Rangeley, you know whether or not it's for you. If you have not been here, you'll have to visit to get a sense of the place.

The town of Rangeley, the heart of the Rangeley Lakes region, has a year-round population of about 1,300 (estimated; the 2000 census put the number at 1,052), and there is housing for several times that number in the area. Much of the housing is owned by seasonal residents who visit for a few weeks or months each year as they please.

Here are some random facts about Rangeley.
Rangeley has:

  • At least 15 restaurants. Some are pretty good.

  • Thai food.

  • No McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Domino's, etc.

  • A stricly enforced speed limit in the village.

  • A good hardware store.

  • Very nice people.

  • One adequate grocery store.

  • Two convenience store-type places.

  • One place where you can get excellent produce.

  • Two places where you can get excellent seafood.

  • Sufficient touristy shopping to meet state requirements.

  • A great deal of water.

  • Saddleback Mountain.

  • The Appalachian Trail.

  • Golf.

  • An excellent regional school.

  • A good library.

  • A movie theater.

  • A public swimming area.

  • A few bars that you would not be embarrassed to enter.

  • Police who will bust you for drunk driving.

  • The Rangeley Regional Health Care Center.

  • Many good snowmobiling trails.

  • The Pine Tree Frosty (ice cream).

  • Good sandwiches at several establishments.

  • Happy liberals (the Ecopelagicon).

  • Grumpy conservative columnists (read the Rangeley Highlander).