Acadia National Park
Maine
Tonight
🌗 46% moon
5.6 h fully dark
Hikes
Easy–Strenuous
🟢 🟡 🔴
Crowds
high
Open today
Open
Entrance
$6
Timed entry
Park Loop Road Detour
The Park Loop Road between Kebo Street and Sieur de Monts is closed to ALL uses for construction and will reopen on Sunday, June 26. Please follow the detour out Kebo Street to Cromwell Harbor Road and Main Street (Route 3) to re-enter the Park Loop Road at Sieur de Monts.
Several Trails Close For Peregrine Falcon Nesting Season
Effective March 1, areas including Jordan Cliffs Trail, Penobscot East Trail, Precipice Trail, and Valley Cove Trail are closed to protect nesting peregrine falcons. The parking lot for the Precipice Trail is also closed. Rangers strictly enforce closures.
Official NPS alert →Acadia National Park protects the natural beauty of the highest rocky headlands along the Atlantic coastline of the United States, an abundance of habitats, and a rich cultural heritage. At 4 million visits a year, it's one of the top 10 most-visited national parks in the United States. Visitors enjoy 27 miles of historic motor roads, 158 miles of hiking trails, and 45 miles of carriage roads.
Activities
Topics
Entrance fees
$6.00 — Timed Entry Reservation - Location
$35.00 — Entrance - Private Vehicle
$30.00 — Entrance - Motorcycle
$20.00 — Entrance - Per Person
$0.00 — Entrance - Education/Academic Groups
$0.00 — Entrance - Non-commercial Groups
$20.00 — Commercial Entrance - Per Person
$100.00 — Nonresident
Hours & seasons
Acadia National Park is open year-round. Check our website for park facilities operating hours, such as Hulls Cove Visitor Center.
Generally open:
winterspringsummerfallHours are reported by the park — verify before you go.
📞 2072883338
✉ acadia_information@nps.govConditions
Quietest months (fewer crowds): Jan, Feb, Mar, Dec
Typical crowds: high
Weather now: ☀️ Clear, 86°F
☁️ 91°/60°
☁️ 91°/68°
🌦️ 72°/63°
Typical monthly recreation visits · NPS avg 2023–2025 — orange months are the quietest by crowds.
Quietest months
Relative crowds by month — lighter is quieter; ringed months are the calmest by crowds.
Jan
2%
Feb
2%
Mar
3%
Apr
12%
May
41%
Jun
74%
Jul
98%
Aug
100%
Sep
81%
Oct
71%
Nov
9%
Dec
2%
Log a sky reading
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Live conditions
Things to do
🔴 Hike Jordan Pond Path · 3.3 mi
🟢 Hike Village Green to Sieur de Monts with Island Explorer Bus · 2.1 miles one way.<b> </b>There is no elevation gain or loss. Depending on stops and speed of walking, the hike takes 45 minutes to one hour.
🔴 Hike Pemetic Summit with Island Explorer Bus · 0.1 mi
🟢 Hike Double Bubble Nubble Loop with Island Explorer · 6.6 mi · 450 ft gain · The loop is a longer distance trail for the park with three distinct periods of rock scrambles to summits—one of which is an extreme rock scramble gaining more than 450 feet in 0.2 miles and requiring the use of hands and arms. Apart from the short climbs, the rest of the trail is mostly gradual with rocks and roots.
🔴 Hike Gorge/Cadillac Mountain North Ridge Loop with Island Explorer Bus · 4 mi · Because the trail offers multiple places to stop, rest, and to take in the views, the duration of the hike can vary widely. The hike is 5.2 miles with an ascent of 1,086 feet.
Hike the Acadia Mountain Loop with Island Explorer Bus · 0.3 mi · From Bar Harbor Village Green take the #7 Southwest Harbor Bus (runs every 30 minutes) and gets off at the trailhead. Cross the road safely. The same bus will pick you up at the trailhead and take you back to Bar Harbor.
Hike Sieur de Monts to Jesup Path with Island Explorer Bus · 1.5 mi · This trail has almost no elevation gain along the 1.5-mile walk, although there are gentle rises in elevation making it accessible to almost anyone. The trails consist of boardwalks and fire roads with crushed gravel.
Hike Sieur de Monts to Sand Beach Trek with Island Explorer · 4.1 mi · 900 ft gain · This trail has over 900 feet of elevation gain in a 1.2-mile stretch making for a strenuous, slow climb to summit Champlain. While the decent along Champlain South Ridge Trail is more gradual, all trails in this trek have rocks, roots and grade the hiker must be always mindful of.
Campgrounds
Blackwoods Campground ↗ · 281 sites · dump station
Duck Harbor Campground ↗ · 5 sites
Schoodic Woods Campground ↗ · 89 sites · hookups · dump station
Seawall Campground ↗ · 202 sites · dump station
Visitor centers
Acadia Gateway Center
Hulls Cove Visitor Center
Islesford Historical Museum
Schoodic Institute Welcome Center at Rockefeller Hall
Sieur de Monts Nature Center
Winter Information: Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce
Accessibility
4 accessible campground(s)
90 audio-described place(s)
Reported by the park — verify before you go.
Parking
Cadillac Mountain · 145 accessible spacesaccessible
Echo Lake · 89 accessible spacesaccessible
Jordan Pond · 152 accessible spacesaccessible
Sand Beach Park Lot · 101 accessible spacesaccessible
Not an official safety source — always defer to NPS.gov and rangers for life-safety decisions.
By the numbers
A visual read on Acadia National Park — its character, trails, sky, and weather.
Park fingerprint
How this park scores across the dimensions travelers care about.
Trail difficulty
Difficulty mix across this park's trails.
Trail profile
Each dot is a trail — distance vs. elevation gain, by difficulty.
3-day forecast
Daily high and low temperatures (°F).
People & stories
Figures tied to Acadia National Park — each spans a cross-park journey.
Andrew Emery Liscomb
— Pathmaker, Trail Builder, Bar Harbor Village Improvement AssociationAntoine de la Mothe Cadillac
— Cadillac, Acadia National Park, Cadillac MountainArdra Tarbell
— Women, Women In Government, Women In The WorkplaceBarbara Patterson
— Women, Citizen Science, BirdingBeatrix Farrand
— Landscape, Women's History, Landscape ArchitectCharles W Eliot
— Harvard, Acadia, Acadia National ParkChief Asticou
— Wabanaki, Political Leaders, ChiefsEdward Lothrup Rand
— History, Trail Builder, ScientistPassport stamps
Mark the stamps you've collected — they show in your memory and along your routes.
🎫 Acadia Gateway Center Accessibility Information
🎫 Blackwoods Campground
🎫 Cadillac Mountain
🎫 Duck Harbor Campground
🎫 Hulls Cove Visitor Center
🎫 Islesford Historical Museum
🎫 Jordan Pond House
🎫 Nature Center Accessibility Information
🎫 Rockefeller Hall
🎫 Schoodic Institute Welcome Center at Rockefeller Hall
🎫 Schoodic Woods Campground
🎫 Seawall Campground
🎫 Sieur de Monts Nature Center
🎫 Thompson Island Information Center
🎫 Thunder Hole
🎫 Winter Information: Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce
🎫 Winter Operations with Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce
Places to see
Acadia Earthcache Course Stop Five: Champlain Mountain
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Acadia Earthcache Course Stop Four: Gorham Mountain Trail
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Acadia Earthcache Course Stop Three: Jellybean Glacial Erratic
audio
Acadia Earthcache Course Stop Two: Bubble Rock
audio
Acadia Earthcache Course: Stop One - Somes Sound
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Acadia Gateway Center
audio
Acadia Gateway Center Accessibility Information
audio
Acadia Mountain Trailhead
audio
Acadia National Park
Acadia Trails Memorial Plaque
audio
Alessandro Fabbri Plaque
audio
Amphitheatre Bridge (I)
Audio & media
🎧 Access Wayside: A Summer Legacy Continues ↗ · 1 mintranscript
🎧 Bonus Audio: Candice Salyers ↗ · 5 mintranscript
🎧 Access Wayside: Not so Barren ↗ · 2 mintranscript
🎧 Access Wayside: Hidden Highway into Acadia ↗ · 2 mintranscript
🎧 Access Wayside: Wild Gardens of Acadia ↗ · 3 mintranscript
🎧 Access Wayside: Signs of the Seasons ↗ · 2 mintranscript
🎧 Access Wayside: Cobbling the Cove ↗ · 2 mintranscript
🎧 Audio description of "Ocean" ↗ · 1 mintranscript
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Learn more
2021 was a busy year for research in Acadia National Park. Together scientists worked on 84 research projects in the park, a near-record number for Acadia. This was a big rebound from 2020, when research was slowed by COVID-19. Of the 84 research projects, 37 (44%) were new, many by researchers new to the park. Learn more about the variety of research conducted in the park in 2021.
Scientists Greg LeClair from University of Maine - Orono is developing a new tool to find rare animals by finding their DNA in the water without having to actually see the animal. Check out this research brief to find out more about how Acadia National Park is a living laboratory for research and scientific discovery.
2022 was a busy year for research in Acadia National Park. Together scientists from the park, universities, and other scientific institutions worked on 85 research projects in the park. Learn more about the variety of research conducted in the park in 2022.
Another banner year for science in Acadia National Park! Researchers worked on 85 different projects, many of them forward-looking to help us understand how the park’s natural and cultural resources are changing and how we can best manage them to ensure that they remain healthy for future generations to enjoy.
Many visitors to national parks today collect passport stamps, magnets, or other items to recall their trip and to show others where they’ve been. In the 1920s and 1930s the “must have” souvenirs weren’t created to be collected. National Park Service (NPS) windshield stickers served a practical administrative purpose; they were evidence that the automobile license fee drivers paid at some parks had been paid. Even so, Americans embraced their colorful, artistic designs.
Described by some as "the greatest propaganda campaign ever launched by the federal government to exploit the scenic wonders of the United States," the national park stamps issued by the U.S. Post Office Department in 1934 became one of the most recognized series of U.S. stamps. Despite being in the middle of the Great Depression, over one billion of the 10 national park stamps were printed in under two years.
A brief history of the colonization and settlement of Mount Desert Island and how that led to the formation of Acadia National Park.
Implemented in 1999, the Island Explorer includes 17 clean-fuel, propane buses that run on seven routes and efficiently link the hotels, motels, and campgrounds of the area with park attractions and the Bar Harbor Airport. The shuttle buses have bicycle racks and provide full access for disabled passengers. The Island Explorer runs from the end of June through the middle of October, and each route runs on its own pre-established schedule.
Ranger School
Park-grounded courses you can learn with the Ranger.
Acadia Rock Identification
Open →
Acids and Bases
Open →
Biodiversity: Plant Identification
Open →
Bird Data Scientist
Open →
Botany for Elementary Students
Open →
Canada Goose Migration
Open →
Carriage Road Explorers Post Activities
Open →
Hummingbird Migration K-2
Open →
Identifying Birds of Acadia
Open →
K-2: Monarch Migration
Open →
Lichens of Acadia
Open →
Looking at Leaves
Open →
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