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Sand Beach, Acadia National Park
Travel & Outdoors

From Our Archives
Summer 1959

From the article “Acadia National Park: Mountain Playground by the Sea” by Herbert J. Seligmann in our August 1959 issue.
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Travel & Outdoors

Acadia Favorites: The Schoodic Peninsula

An hour’s drive from Bar Harbor, on the far side of Frenchman Bay, the already-scenic Schoodic Peninsula is now even more inviting.
Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Down East Magazine, Maine
Arts & Leisure

Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from October's, Cadillac Mountain picture.
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Treasured Toilet

A public bathroom in Seal Harbor donated by John D. Rockefeller is in danger of falling to pieces.
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Maine’s Songbird Highway

Scientists aim to unravel the mysteries of migration in the Gulf of Maine.
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My Washington County Honeymoon

How one couple fell hard for the unlikeliest of love nests.
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Fire Escape

One writer’s earliest childhood memory: fleeing the blaze that forever changed Bar Harbor.
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Travel & Outdoors

Acadia’s Best Hiking Trails

The park is a day hiker’s paradise with some 125 miles of trails, from shoreline strolls to rocky, exposed ridge routes. Here are a few of our favorites.
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Photographing Acadia 2015

We took a group of our readers on an unforgettable week of photography and exploration in Acadia National Park, along with some of our favorite contributing photographers.
the starry night sky over Sand Beach in Acadia National Park
Travel & Outdoors

Why Stargazers Are Flocking to Mount Desert Island and Looking Up

While light pollution affects most of the United States and Europe, the sky around Acadia remains the largest expanse of dark sky east of the Mississippi River.
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The River Wild

One of the most ambitious river restorations ever undertaken in the United States is happening on the Penobscot River.
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Maine Road Trip

Fill up the tank and get behind the wheel. In a new book Dan Tobyne shares the best drives Maine has to offer.
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