SaltwoodINN — ROOM & TIDE
Inn bedroom with a wide window onto a gray-green sea in fog
Bed with a rumpled linen throw under a bay window's soft light
Clawfoot tub beside a fogged window, towel over the rim
Worn reading chair angled toward a foggy sea view

A NINE-ROOM INN — EST. 1908 — 30 STEPS TO WATER

Nine rooms. One tide clock.

A shipwright's house on the shore, kept simple on purpose.

GUESTS
2

Every room knows its window.

The Crow's Nest — top-floor room with a full sea window

The Crow's Nest

$240 / NIGHT

  • SLEEPS 2
  • TOP FLOOR
  • FULL SEA
The Keeper's — linen-dressed bed in a bay-window room

The Keeper's

$220 / NIGHT

  • SLEEPS 2
  • BAY WINDOW
Driftwood — garden-side room in worn wood and linen

Driftwood

$180 / NIGHT

  • SLEEPS 2
  • GARDEN
The Chart Room — writing desk and daybed under coastal light

The Chart Room

$210 / NIGHT

  • SLEEPS 3
  • DESK + DAYBED
Fog Bell — quiet room with a sideways glimpse of the sea

Fog Bell

$195 / NIGHT

  • SLEEPS 2
  • SEA GLIMPSE
The Skiff — a snug single berth of a room

The Skiff

$165 / NIGHT

  • SLEEPS 1
  • SNUG

Three more upstairs. The bar knows which are free.

Weathered-shingle inn in fog, porch light on

Built by a shipwright who couldn't stop.

Elias Wood built boats for thirty years and then a house the same way — oak joints, no nails where a peg would do. It has outlasted eleven storms with names.

  • EST. 1908
  • 9 ROOMS
  • 30 STEPS TO WATER
Long breakfast table in low morning lightBreakfast plate beside a paper tide chart

Breakfast until the tide turns.

THIS MORNING

TIDE TURNS12:58

  • Calder Mill oats — up the coast
  • Hill Farm — 2 miles
  • The Proof Bakery — 150 m
  • The day boat — ask Nell

The kitchen posts the turn time each dawn. Late risers negotiate with the moon.

HIGHLOWRISINGFALLING

NOW — RISING · NEXT HIGH 19:11

TODAY — TIDE STATION DATA

We plan around it. You should too.

HIGH · 06:42

LOW · 12:58

HIGH · 19:11

Beach walks at low, reading chairs at high. The clock in the hall is never wrong twice.

Kept by two people who mean it.

Nell Ashworth-Wood

KITCHEN · WEATHER

Great-granddaughter of the shipwright; came back after ten years as a chef in the city. Runs the kitchen and the weather report.

Io Tanaka

LIBRARY · FIRES

Bookbinder by trade; keeps the library, the ledgers, and the fires. Says less than the fog.

The book by the door.

“Came for two nights, stayed five. Blame the Chart Room desk.”

— M. & T., October

“The tide clock is a personality and I miss it.”

— June, solo, room: The Skiff

Spread 1 of 3

THE FIRST 1.6 KM — CURATED

Turn left at the door.

Take this walk home ↓

  • Croissants gone by nine. Act accordingly.

  • Longboard wave, polite crowd.

  • Shack, shells, six stools.

  • Used, salted, alphabetized-ish.

  • The lighthouse. Sunset headquarters.

  • Low-tide only. Check the dial.

Same house, four moods.

Pick a mood — the bar takes the dates from there.

The website gets you the good stuff.

  • If you find lower, Io will match it and raise you a scone.

  • Until the tide turns. The tide is not negotiable; the second coffee is.

  • Ask at breakfast. The answer is usually the good one.

  • Nell or Io. There is no phone tree; there is barely a phone.

The Saltwood Shore Guide — a folded walking-map booklet

FREE PDF — PRINT AT HOME, FOLDS IN FOUR

The mile, on paper.

The walk, plus tide rules, the bakery's hours, and where the seals actually are.

One email. Bring it back stained, that's the point.

  • 118YEARS ON THIS SHORE
  • 11NAMED STORMS OUTLASTED
  • 14,600LOAVES SINCE 2019
  • 61%GUESTS WHO RETURN

The house counts in decades. We count the bread.

  • Dinner down the inn's long tableTHE LONG TABLE
  • Small ceremony on the bluff at sunsetTHE BLUFF
  • Reading room with the fire litTHE READING ROOM

Sometimes the whole house says yes.

Nine rooms, the long table, the bluff at sunset — yours for weddings small enough to mean it, and retreats that actually retreat.

  • SLEEPS 18
  • DINES 30
  • BLUFF CEREMONY
  • 2-NIGHT MIN

Asked at check-in.

Salt-approved dogs yes — two rooms are theirs. Salt is the house terrier and head of security.

Over ten, or under three months. We know it's specific. The stairs wrote the rule.

Six spots behind the house, first come. It has never actually filled; the fog keeps the numbers honest.

Tell us once — Nell remembers forever.

Full refund to 14 days; after that we try to re-let and split the difference honestly.