Acadia National Park in Maine

Acadia National Park in Maine

 

 

Acadia National Park is an American national park located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park includes about half of Mount Desert Island, part of the Isle au Haut, the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula, and portions of sixteen smaller outlying islands.

 

The park contains the tallest mountain on the Atlantic Coast of the United States (Cadillac Mountain), exposed granite domes, glacial erratics, U-shaped valleys, and cobble beaches. Its mountains, lakes, streams, wetlands, forests, meadows, and coastlines contribute to a diversity of plants and animals. Woven into this landscape is a historic carriage road system financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.[4] In total, it encompasses 49,075 acres (19,860 ha; 76.680 sq mi; 198.60 km2) as of 2017.

 

 

The Bass Harbor Head Light located in Acadia National Park, Maine.

 

Established

July 8, 1916 (as Sieur de Monts National Monument)
February 26, 1919 (as Lafayette National Park)
January 19, 1929 (as Acadia National Park)

 

 

 

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Cadillac-Mountain-Sunrise

 

 

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Cadillac Mountain is the highest point on the Atlantic Coast, and one of the highlights of Acadia.

 

 

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View from the Beehive Trail at Acadia National Park

 

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SUNRISE ON CADILLAC MOUNTAIN

SUNRISE ON CADILLAC MOUNTAIN

 

 

Acadia National Park, also called the “Crown Jewel of the North Atlantic Coast,” protects the rocky coastline in Maine. Granite coastal cliffs, estuary and intertidal habitats, and the tallest mountain on the Atlantic Coast of the United States are found here.