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Acadia National Park is a National Park located in the U.S. state of Maine. It reserves much of Mount Desert Island, and associated smaller islands, off the Atlantic coast.
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The only designated National Park in New England, most of Acadia’s 30,000 acres sprawl across rugged Mt.
Desert Island. The park came to prominence during the late 19th century, when wealthy industrialists began summering in the island's largest community, courtly Bar Harbor. Boston landscape architect Charles Elliot and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. are the luminaries most associated with Acadia's establishment in 1916. Rockefeller developed the park's legendary network of carriage roads and helped fund the park's restoration following a devastating 1947 wildlife fire.A visit to Acadia National Park provides opportunities for outdoorsy adventures and abundant wildlife viewing -- it's a stellar destination for biking, rock-climbing, kayaking, and horseback riding. Among one of the park’s more superlative features is rocky Cadillac Mountain, which at 1,528 feet is the highest natural point on the Eastern Seaboard.5…Get Your BearingsMaking the most of your time at Acadia doesn't...The jagged, irregular shape of Maine's coast is what makes it both enchanting and delightfully time-consuming to fully explore. Although about 230 miles across as th...
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