Acadia National Park gets about 4 million visitors a year, securing its place as one of the top 10 most-visited national parks in the United States. Most people will explore the highlights of the park on Mount Desert Island: Jordan Pond, Cadillac Mountain, 45 miles of carriage roads, and numerous hiking trails. But to really […]
Acadia National Park
Acadia National Park
Acadia National Park lies along Maine’s midwest coast, just south of Bar Harbor. It is the only national park in the northeast, but with a park this amazing, who needs another? Acadia National Park spans a huge portion of Mount Desert Island (pronounced like dessert), part of the Schoodic peninsula (the only part attached to […]
Crossing the Bar Harbor Land Bridge to Bar Island
The small community of Bar Harbor is full of things you’d expect from a Maine resort town: lobster restaurants, ice cream, homemade fudge, souvenir shops, and tourists. But there is one unique and magical thing you can’t find anywhere else: the land bridge to Bar Island. The land bridge linking Bar Harbor to Bar Island […]
Bar Harbor, Maine: Welcome to Vacationland
I didn’t know that Maine’s unofficial nickname was “Vacationland” until Brian and I visited Bar Harbor this summer. Ostensibly, it refers to all of Maine, but the slogan felt especially apt for Bar Harbor, a compact little town full of shops, restaurants, ice cream parlors, and of course, tons of milling tourists! This adorable resort […]