Dog Boarding & Daycare Near Eddington, Maine

Eddington is a small, rural town on the eastern side of the Penobscot River, with 2,194 residents at the 2020 census spread across 26.54 square miles (about 25 square miles of land and 1.5 of water) — one of the lowest population densities of any town on this page. It's named for Jonathan Eddy, a Revolutionary War colonel who settled the area with fellow Nova Scotia migrants who'd supported the American side.

It's still mostly wooded and residential today, without a dense commercial center, which is typical of the small towns ringing Greater Bangor on the river's east side. At roughly 88 residents per square mile of land, Eddington is quieter and more rural than Brewer, Hampden or Veazie, closer in character to Glenburn.

Eddington borders Clifton to the northeast, and Blackcap Mountain, described below, actually straddles the Clifton–Eddington town line — the trailhead at Camp Roosevelt has an Eddington mailing address even though the scout camp's land and buildings sit just over the line in Clifton.

Eddington is also a Penobscot River town in the fullest sense: the river forms its entire western boundary, separating it from Bangor and Brewer, which is part of why the drive from Eddington to either kennel runs along the river corridor rather than cutting inland.

With Bangor and Brewer just to the west and Clifton's rural backcountry to the east, Eddington works as a kind of transition zone between Greater Bangor's suburbs and the more remote Down East towns — which is part of why it has so little in the way of its own commercial development.