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Acadia National Park, Maine
Flashback, warm nights, almost left behind
The Ocean Trail (with the Ocean on the right) in Acadia National Park, near Bar Harbor, Maine, mile for mile my favorite trail in the world, at least so far.
This year we took the ferry out to Little Cranberry Island- you want to avoid Big Cranberry Island because, you know, all those giant cranberries everywhere. Little Cranberry Island feels especially quaint, and by quaint I mean virtually abandoned with a lot of insects.
Climbing only 525 feet from the rocky coast to the summit, the Beehive Precipice Trail makes the most of its location by scaling cliffs with iron rungs, ladders and, in this picture, an iron bridge.
If you survive those iron rungs, ladders and that iron bridge, you are rewarded with a stellar view that stretches across Mount Champlain and all the way through Frenchman’s Bay.
A last picture from this year’s trip shows view of the Gorge Trail, between Cadillac Mountain on the right and Dorr Mountain on the left. The Gorge Trail is a quick and easy way to climb Cadillac (or Dorr Mountain) as long as you’re ok with non stop elevation gain.
That’s it for Maine this year, and I’m already thinking about when to come back in 2000, so I’m sure you’ll see even more Maine pictures again before you know it (or, more accurately, before you can stop it).
