Our Community

Vinalhaven Island lies twelve miles off the region known as Midcoast Maine in Penobscot Bay and it is the state’s largest unbridged island community.  We have an active working waterfront and vibrant artistic community. Our Main street is lined with locally owned restaurants and stores including a well stocked grocery store, a wine and beer store, gifts shop, a used book store whose sales support our beautiful Carnegie library and the newly renovated Star of Hope building that was the home and studio for Robert Indiana, an artist painted and lived on the island for many years .

Our island is known for its striking natural beauty and for being home to one of the world’s largest lobster fishing fleets. Our commercial fishermen and women and related activities make up about half of the island’s economy, we are also builders, musicians, plumbers, teachers, shopkeepers, electricians, innkeepers, artists, writers, mechanics, realtors, restauranteurs, boat builders, ferry captains, architects, administrators, conservationists, and more.

Vinalhaven has a year-round population of 1,200 residents and swells to more than 4,000 in the summer months.  The island is home to a K-12 school, with graduates going on to some of the finest colleges and universities in the country.  

For more information about Vinalhaven, you can visit our chamber of commerce or town office.  

​You can also take a quick peek at our beautiful island by click here.​