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5 Family-Friendly Hiking Trails in Acadia National Park
Travel & Outdoors

5 Family-Friendly Hiking Trails in Acadia National Park

Mellow (but no less spectacular) walks for the junior ranger in all of us.
Razorback Trail, on Mansell Mountain
Travel & Outdoors

5 of Acadia National Park’s Best High-Country Trails

Clinging to cliffs and traversing above tree line, Acadia at its most rugged.
Autumn in Acadia, Sunset from Cadillac Mountain, the park’s high point, looking out over Sargent Mountain
Photography

Autumn Is Acadia National Park’s Best Season

It's a time of transitions, vivid contrasts, and quiet beauty.
Virginia M. Wright's favorite place, Little Hunters Beach, Acadia National Park
Our Towns

Virginia M. Wright’s Favorite Maine Place

Our departing editor loves a little-visited Acadia Beach.
Gorham Mountain, Acadia National Park
My Favorite Place

Dr. Jacquelyn Gill’s Favorite Place

For the University of Maine paleoecologist, Acadia has always both a research destination and a respite.
Best of Maine

Best of Maine 2017
Travel & Play

We spend all year thinking about it and countless hours tabulating your votes for it. Our annual list of Maine’s best everything. How’d your favorites do?
The Classics: 5 Must-Hike Trails in Acadia National Park
Travel & Outdoors

The Classics: 5 Must-Hike Trails in Acadia National Park

From the mountains to the shore, bucket-list trails that show off quintessential Acadia terrain.
cadillac south ridge trail
Travel & Outdoors

The 30 Best Trails in Acadia National Park

From all across Maine’s diverse and dazzling national park, our favorite trails for every kind of adventurer.
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October 2020

Autumn in Acadia National Park is a time of transitions, vivid contrasts, and quiet beauty. Plus, the little city of Eastport tried for years to lure mega cruise ships to its docks. Then, amid a global pandemic, it got one, along with the ship’s skeleton crew of coronavirus exiles.
Lafayette National Park becomes Acadia National Park
History

The French-Snubbing Heiresses Who Gave Acadia National Park Its Name

How Lafayette National Park became Acadia.
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A Steep Hike in Acadia

In Maine’s much-loved national park, once an aristocratic enclave, the prospect of a dramatic fee increase resonates a bit louder.
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Land, Water & Wildlife

Friends in High Places

A few remarkable stats about the organization Friends of Acadia, and the work it does, from shores to summits.
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