Vista of Maine

The Vista of Maine is a 650 acre ridge top property, with some of the most beautiful awe striking views in all of Maine. The view to the West goes across Auburn and Lewiston all of the way to the White Mountains in NH, and to the East we look down across Sabattus Lake and at the farms beyond. We have both vineyards, and orchards, a wedding barn venue, multiple event rooms, tasting room for wine and ciders, and a limited menu restaurant. All of these are within walking distance to our; 7 rental cabins, 3 houses, 3 lodges, glamping tent, and 15 campsites; 6 with power, water and septic, 5 with power and water, 4 tent only sites. We do have a nice bath house with 2 bathrooms, 2 shower rooms, washer & dryer, and a couple outdoor showers in the summer.

This farm was originally a very large sheep farm first owned by the Hills family founding it in the early 1800's. The Hills paid for the train tracks to be extended past Auburn to Greene near the farm to facilitate the movement of their sheep to market in NYC in the 1800's before trucks were available. They had one of the largest flocks in the Eastern US, and their cousins, the Sawyers, had one of the largest in the Western US. When the Hills realized they were in danger of loosing their farm during the Great Depression, they sold it to the Sawyers. The Sawyers, continued farming here until the 1990's, when they reduced operations back to Montana. The Sawyers built the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial Building in 1935, from which programs, free to the public, are still presented twice monthly on Fridays at 2pm and 7pm from May through October, https://www.sawyer-foundation.com/events. We bought the farm in 2013 after the last Maine survivor of the Sawyer family had past away. Our Ricker family has been growing apples on one of two "Ricker Hills" here in western Maine since the late 1700's. We were not really shopping for a new farm when this came up for sale, but were convinced to take a look at it by a family friend. Our father, Don Ricker, who is still working full time at 87 years old, saw this beautiful panoramic view, and said "I don't care how you do it, but find a way to buy this farm, God did not make many spots as nice as this, it will be worth the trouble of paying for it".