10 AM
Explore Fort Popham
Fort Popham · Family
Wander the granite Civil War fort at the mouth of the Kennebec, built in 1862 -- picnic tables, river views and the Pond Island and Seguin lighthouses offshore.
6:31 PM
sun-timed
Walk to Fox Island
Popham Beach State Park · Active
At low tide a broad sandbar opens out to Fox Island -- one of the great tide-timed walks on the Maine coast. Check the tide chart first; the bar floods and can strand you.
Popham Colony Commemoration
History programs at the Fort Baldwin and Fort St. George sites marking the 1607 Popham Colony, England's first New England colony and birthplace of the ship Virginia.
Piping Plover Nesting Season
Popham and Seawall are important nesting beaches for endangered piping plovers and least terns -- roped-off dune areas and Maine Audubon monitoring through the summer.
Shoulder-Season Beach Days
The crowds thin, the light turns golden and the water is at its warmest -- many locals call early fall the best time on this wild stretch of coast.
see you out there
Real recurring local happenings — schedules can change, so check the venue. Sun-timed events track each day’s real sunset and the countdown runs on the live local clock.
At Popham Beach, the sun sets at 8:01 PM today — about 14h 31m of daylight. Sunrise was 5:31 AM. Live water temperature, surf height, UV index, wind and tide for Popham Beach update at the top of the conditions page.