You can't start it much earlier than in Acadia National Park, America's easternmost national ... The eponymous ledges, exposed stone slabs traversing the mountain side, open on unimpeded vistas ...

One of the nation’s most beloved parks, Acadia protects a patch of coastal Maine where the north woods tumble down to meet the wild Atlantic. The first national park east of the Mississippi ...

Acadia National Park encompasses nearly 50,000 acres along ... faces along the way that you traverse with a well-established stone stairway for much of the trail.” Acadia is home to a wide ...

The oldest National Park east of the Mississippi River is Acadia National Park ... Forty-five miles of carriage roads (broken-stone roads) were built between 1913 and 1940 by John D.

Climb a set of stone steps paralleling the park road before reaching the summit, where the views expand to a full 360-degree panorama of Acadia’s forests, mountains and islands. Drop onto the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard still maintains the beacon, but it transferred ownership to Acadia National Park on July 8 ... stairway and then more gradual stone steps to a rugged path over uneven granite ...

Acadia National Park broke ground on a 32,000-square-foot ... conserving historic carriage roads and stone bridges, keeping visitor centers clean and operational, and managing construction projects.

Two men ride their bikes on a carriage road near Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park. The park's historic ... constructed with three layers of rock, stone culverts, wide ditches, and a 6- to ...

interpretation and engagement coordinator for the National Park Service, told USA TODAY. “Our primary objective is to make sure that kids feel welcome in parks and know that parks are a fun ...

In your exhilaration, you grab a stone and drop it on the nearest cairn as if to say, I was here! Please don’t do that. Acadia National Park has a unique stone trail marker—the Bates cairn ...

For her 63 Parks column, she visited every U.S. national park ... to 45 miles of crushed-stone carriage roads, a gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. in the early 1900s, Acadia is a wonderland for ...