The first time I set foot in Acadia National Park, in the early 1970s, I was little more than a toddler and the park was not yet 60 years old. Since then, over the past four decades, I’ve done more things in the park than I can count. When I was young, hikes and picnics at Acadia with […]
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — As the only national park in Maine celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, park officials are busy trying to manage the predicted boost in visitation. John Kelly, the park’s spokesman, said Monday that visitation to Acadia so far in 2016 seems to be about one-fifth higher than it was at […]
When Sieur De Monts National Monument was founded on Mount Desert Island 100 years ago, its creators sought to protect the island’s stunning natural resources from development and to preserve them for public access. Now, with the rise of state’s tourism industry over the past several decades, the economic impact the federally conserved land now […]
