Acadia National Park
It had been a long time since we visited a National Park; the last time was before the kids were born. Last weekend, we went to Acadia National Park. On Saturday, it was cloudy, rainy and foggy but, the weather completely turned around on Sunday and Monday. This beautiful park is enjoyable in all kinds of weather. There are many many activities to do here and in 2 and half days we just scratched the surface.
- Drive around the park on Park Loop road is the easiest thing to do. Vistas along the road are quite stunning and it is good that most of this road is one-way otherwise there’d be a lot more accidents. A drive up to the top of Mount Cadillac on a clear sunny day is a must.
- There are hundreds of miles of hiking trails in the park. We went on one hike to the top of South Bubble (alt: 776 feet). It was a fun little hike and it was good to see how Ashwini enjoyed it. I see a good hiking partner in my near future.
- Lunch at Jordan Pond House is an essential experience. Pop-overs and jelly are excellent. This restaurant has been in business for more than 100 years and is the only place where you can buy food in the park.
- There are many places along the park loop road to go down along the rocky cliffs to the ocean. We walked around “Thunderhole” area.
- We went on a Sunset cruise aboard a 150 ft four mast sailboat called Margaret Todd. It was windy and cold but a great experience.
We ate lobsters every day while we were in Maine. The best lobster was at the least fancy place of all called Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound in a town called Trenton just before getting onto Mount Desert Island where the park is located. There are plenty of good restaurants in downtown Bar Harbor. One of the places that we went to Rupununi Bar and Grill had a good choice of vegetarian dishes, too.
We totally enjoyed our time at Acadia and will be back there soon for a longer vacation. Here are some photos…
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Lovely photos. We visited Acadia in 2006 and incidentally, it was rainy and cloudy as well before clearing up on our last day. It is truly one of the beautiful national parks in the country. Of course, we had gone in May so Bar Harbor was practically deserted as the season had just begun. Here is my Flickr photoset if you haven’t seen it yet; not all photos are of Acadia though.