Acadia National Park in Mount Desert Island is really a majestic park. With everything from lush forrest, mountains and rugged shore lines ~ it is a wonderful place to visit and spend time at. This was our main purpose for coming to this area and we are glad we did. We arrived here on the 18th of June and were excited about exploring the National Park and surrounding area... not to mention eating lots of great seafood!
It took us 4 of our 7 days here to visit this park and enjoy all it has to offer. The very first thing we did was visit the Hulls Cove Visitor Center which was right down the road from our campground, Mount Desert Narrows RV Park, click here for complete review of park. At the visitor center we watched a movie on how glaciers formed the lakes and mountains and how it formed the granite that many of the mountains are made up of. We also got information and maps to many of the stops at this park along with how many Passport Stamps you can get here ~ 12 that is how many!!! Woo Hoo :-D Looking for the places to get the stamps was a fun thing for us to do....
The first day we did part of the scenic drive around the park with a stop in Bar Harbor... What a quaint little town with it's harbor, shops and restaurants. In town there is a National Park building where you can get a Pasport stamp.
After a visit to Bar Harbor and picking up brochures of things to do while here we headed out for something to eat ~ well I can never get enough of the fabulous seafood that New England has to offer. We saw a few places when we came into the Island and we decided on Trenton Bridge Seafood Pound and what a good choice it was. I highly recommend it for great lobster or steamers.
After a great lunch we traveled onto Seawall Harbor and the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse. Now as I have told you before we LOVE Lighthouses and there are a lot to see here. This one is run by the US Coast Guard. The cliffside Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse in Acadia National Park, Tremont marks the entrance to Bass Harbor on the southwestern side of Mount Desert Island, Maine. The lighthouse was built of brick in 1858 on a stone foundation, stands 56 feet above mean high water and is accessible by car.
Construction started: 1858
Height: 32' 0" (9.75 m)
Automated: 1974
Opened: 1858
Address: Tremont, ME
Materials: Brick, Stone
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This was our first day here on the Island and we had so much fun visiting the area.... There is a lot to see and do here. The next day we visited Sieur de Monts, Wild Gardens of Arcadia, Nature Center and Abbe Museum. Come on back and check it out!
Have Fun, Travel Safe & Stay Healthy!!!
4 comments:
I can just taste that lobster! Yum!
We have family that's spent time there and they all say the same thing as you. We can hardly wait to go ourselves. Thanks for the tour.
We really do need to work on getting Maine on our schedule.
Looks like a fun place to visit!
Maine....one of these days, I hope.
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