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The second most visited National Park in the United
States, Acadia National Park is open year round.
Visitors can visit the visitor's center from 8:00
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May through early October.
In Acadia National Park there are more than 120
miles of marked trails. There are 17 mountains to
climb. The Carriage Road consists of over 50 miles
of broken stone roads built by John Rockefeller,
Jr. which he later donated to the park. There are
18 stone bridges in the park. The Park Loop Road
is 27 miles long. You can get to Sand Beach, Cadillac
Mountain and Otter Cliffs on the Park Loop Road.
In the park you will find 20 lakes and ponds.
Acadia National Park also includes substantial
tracts of land off Mount Desert Island. Fifty miles
from Bar Harbor by road. Acadia preserves 2000 acres
on the tip of Schoodic Peninsula, the only section
of the park on the mainland. A one-way, six-mile
loop road skirts the edge of the peninsula, bringing
into view a rugged coastline offering sweeping panoramas
of Mount Desert Island.
Acadia also preserves another 2000 acres on Isle
au Haut, an offshore island linked to the mainland
by a mail boat from Stonington.
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