Spring Painting in Acadia
One of the best reasons to get out in the park to paint or take photos in Spring is that you’ll have the place almost to yourself!
One of the best reasons to get out in the park to paint or take photos in Spring is that you’ll have the place almost to yourself!
When I saw the freshly fallen snow outlining every cliff on Champlain Mountain, the scene begged for my attention!
Explore the history of Schooner Head, one of three rocky promontories that dominate the eastern shoreline of Mount Desert Island.
Although not traditionally known as a major winter destination, I think Acadia is one heck of a place to visit when the white stuff flies. This is the time of the year when many locals come together in our attempt to be patient as we await the first cross-country ski or snowshoe of the season.
National Parks are more important than ever, as they remain the epitome of wilderness, on a planet with less and less of it each and every day.
Learn more about painting autumn with Emily Bracale in Acadia National Park. Capture the brilliance of a landscape filled with the colors of the season.
Hiking can be so many things. Going on a hike can be challenging & exhausting. It can also be easy & fun. Discover 5 reasons to hike Acadia National Park.
These apple cider whoopie pies are inspired by the classic apple cider doughnut and, true to form, are dusted with cinnamon sugar.
Explore the first installment of our Art in Acadia series with Emily Bracale. Take a walk in the autumn woods and learn more about making a leaf rubbing!
A visit to Acadia with young children is a chance to both disconnect and reconnect. Here, you can spend quality-time together and inspire your children through your love of the mountains, the forest and the ocean.
In 2016, in celebration of the National Park Service Centennial, the Academy of American Poets commissioned fifty poets to write poems about a park in each of the fifty states. Acadia’s poem was written by Christian Barter.
Acadia National Park is full of more natural wonders than can be counted. Sand Beach . . . Thunder Hole . . .Otter Cliffs . . .Cadillac Mountain . . .Popovers. . .Wait. . .say what? Yes – that’s right. Irresistibly yummy and totally magical. Popovers in Acadia National Park are legendary. In the summer, on Mount Desert Island, popovers almost outnumber visitors.
One of the most beautiful places to explore with your dog on a Fall day is Little Long Pond. Off-leash play doesn’t get any better than this!
For so many Mount Desert Island locals, fall is the best time of the year. At last, the busy rush of summer starts to slow down, and the evenings take on a beautiful crispness. A visit here in Fall is a chance to live like a local.
What could possibly be more pleasant than a stroll along a secluded shore front path – granite outcroppings and the waters of Frenchman Bay on one side, and many of Bar Harbor’s beautiful old homes on the other? Bar Harbor’s Shore Path offers just such an experience.
As a summer community, Bar Harbor enjoys a long history; Native Americans had been summering here hundreds of years before it was “discovered” by the French map maker, Samuel de Champlain in 1604.
An ongoing debate about the pronunciation of the middle word in the phrase Mount Desert Island leads us to no firm conclusion.
If you’ve ever hiked near Champlain Mountain, you’ve seen High Seas. It sits near the base, on a property with almost 1,500 feet of ocean frontage.