Acadia National Park

Finally got some more time to sit down and write about one of our trips. We haven’t had a lot of time lately because of the holidays and some of the stuff that has come afterwards to spend a lot of time sitting down writing but things are starting to calm down. So we have finally gotten around to mapping out what we did over that time and we hope to update you over the week,

Well one of our best trips was to the Acadia National Park in Maine. Now we are used to the area up in the northeast corner of the U.S. but we had never been to the park. Since we are continuing our “See all the National Parks in the U.S.” campaign it happened to be one of the places on our list. So off we flew to the great state of Maine where the sky is always grey and the gas prices are always low!

When we landed we went to the Thrifty counter and rented a Buick Regal, we usually rent a vehicle before arriving but this time we were winging it. So when we got our car we headed to a Knights Inn over by the park and rented a room. When the sun came up we made our way over to the park and crossed the bridge leading to Bar Harbor, kind of the starting area for the park. The interesting thing about Acadia is that it isn’t really a park; it’s more of a mountain.

As you walk towards the center of the island/park you gradually start moving upwards until you are overlooking the harbor and bay. The view is gorgeous and the small towns around the edge of the park are a perfect silhouette to the blue waters. In the distance you can see the Porcupine Islands, a line of small islands we used to visit when we were kids. It’s funny to me that this was always right next to where I lived and I never visited. Definitely worth the trip up here, I can’t get enough of the northeast atmosphere!