The best solution I've found today (2017) is to use [Homebrew][1] and [Cask][2] to install [osxfuse][3] and [sshfs][3]:

    brew cask install osxfuse
    brew install homebrew/fuse/sshfs

And then:

    sshfs username@hostname:/remote/directory/path /local/mount/point -ovolname=NAME

It works! :-)

  [1]: http://brew.sh/
  [2]: http://caskroom.io/
  [3]: https://osxfuse.github.io/