After decompressing (from the long drive from Washington state) for about 11 days at Adam’s parents’ home in Pennsylvania, we headed out on a 10 night loop through the Northeast USA. Then we returned to Adam’s parents home for our final two weeks in the USA this year.
This particular Blog Post is Part 2 of the ” Northeast USA Loop” and will cover Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. Part 1 (the previous blog post) covered just New York City and Newport Rhode Island. Part 3 (the next Blog Post) will cover Burlington, VT, and the Niagara Falls area.
This picture was taken near the waterfront in the village of Bar Harbor, Maine, which is the gateway town to Acadia National Park. You can do a fair amount of walking in and around the village, including a waterside path. Our hotel was in the village. And of course a life size statue of a whale on the wharf in Bar Harbor.Plenty of big yaughts in the harbor, this was just one of them.Cute cottages next to the wharf in Bar HarborWhen I think of Maine I think of lobster trap buoys…The historic US Post Office building in the Village of Bar Harbor.
One of the waterfront hotel and restaurant venues in Bar Harbor. The shoreline walking path goes past it and beyond. It was a lovely walk.We spent two mornings in Acadia National Park, making our first stop at the Visitor Center.Acadia National Park consists primarily of land that was donated by citizens.The view toward Bar Harbor from the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. The road to Cadillac Mountain requires a reservation, which can be obtained for $6 on Recreation.gov. You do also have to have a Park pass, which you can get from the Visitor Center if you do not already have one. Susan has a Lifetime Veteran Pass to National Parks, which is free to all Veterans.After driving up Cadillac Mountain we descended and followed the Loop Road around the perimeter of the eastern side of the Park. Driving the Loop Road is one of the most popular activities in Acadia National Park. This is Otter Cove, one of many beautiful views along the Loop road.On the second morning in Bar Harbor, we went back into Acadia National Park early to do a 3.5 mile hike around Jordon Pond. The path started off like this – flat and wide.
Then the Jordon Pond hike path started to look like this, absolutely gorgeous.One of many ridiculously pretty views of Jordon Pond in Acadia National Park.Eventually, though, the Jordon Pond path got a little more rugged, and even more so than depicted in this picture.And finally on the backside of the Jordon Pond trail, there was almost a mile of this raised walkway to protect the environment. As we neared the end of the hike, we passed about 100 people going the opposite direction. We were glad we had started early.At the end of the hike around Jordon Pond, we stopped for a coffee at the Jordon Pond House Restaurant. Overall it was fabulous hike. Except for a few areas where we had to climb over some boulders it was fairly easy and minimal elevation change.
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