About Acadia National Park
 If you want to have a good reason to make Acadia part of your vacation plans, here's one: More than 3 million visitors come to the Acadia region of Maine every year. Acadia has so much to offer the vacationer, and that includes miles of scenic coastline, quaint little villages, mountains, streams, and an intricate network of offshore islands. Beauty is spectacular, and the outdoor activities are many. A day on Coastal Maine can include deep sea fishing, hiking, bicycling, kayaking, sailing, golfing, sun bathing, and antique hunting.
While in the Bar Harbor / Mount Desert Island Vacation Homes, take time to visit St. Croix Island National Historic Site near Acadia where French explorers settled more than 400 years ago. Take a walking tour through Castine where signs detail the island's turbulent early history, or through the National Register Historic Districts of Eastport or Cherryfield. An elaborate 57-mile system of private carriage roads, featuring a dozen gracefully handcrafted stone bridges are open to pedestrians, bicyclists, and equestrians in in Acadia National Park. The Park has 120 miles of hiking trails. The park is studded with low 'mountains', and almost all have trails with superb views of the ocean. For an easier hike in Acadia, find the parking lot at Day Mountain, between Seal Harbor and the Blackwoods campground. Views of the Cranberry Islands are good and you can glimpse the carriage roads as you gradually ascend.
Outdoor adventures in Acadia are plentiful. Petit Manan and Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuges offer you many hiking opportunities. Take an excursion boat to Machias Seal Island, home of a puffin colony. Canoe the St. Croix River. Bicycle the carriage roads of Acadia National Park. Try fly-fishing in Grand Lake Stream. Or simply take it all in from the summit of Cadillac Mountain on Mt. Desert, the highest point on the Atlantic Coast in North America, or from the Coastal Trail at West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Lubec, the first town in the continental United States warmed by the sun's rays each morning.
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