Location & Directions

Mailing Address, Office, & Barkan Gallery: 103 Cochran Road, Edgecomb, ME 04556
Main Campus & Windgate Studio: 19 Brick Hill Road, Newcastle, ME 04553.

Watershed’s campus is nestled on the border of the small towns of Newcastle and Edgecomb, Maine. We are located in a rural area, approximately 50 miles northeast of Portland and 1.5 miles northeast of Wiscasset.  Our campus, with its rolling fields and wooded groves, is on the ancestral lands of the Wabanaki (Ckuwaponahkiyik), the People of the Dawnland, the collective nations of the Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Mi’kmaq, and Houlton Band of Maliseets.  

*Directions from Cochran Road:

  • Follow Cochran Road one-half mile to the Office & Barkan Gallery, located in the yellow Joan Pearson Watkins House. 
  • The Main Campus is one-third mile past the office on Cochran Road. Turn right onto Brick Hill Road at the Watershed & Straw Farm signs. The first building on the right is the Commons, our residential life building. 
  • The Windgate Studio is one-quarter mile further down the gravel road to the right.
  • On the opposite side of Brick Hill Road from Watershed’s property is Straw Farm’s private property.  Please treat our neighbors and their space with respect.