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Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park Guide Book

by Dolores Kong & Dan Ring (Falcon Publishing)
Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park

84pp/maps
ISBN: 156044441X

In Maine's Acadia National Park, you can see images found nowhere else, such as surf crashing on pink granite cliffs or fog rolling in over Frenchman Bay. With 120 miles of hiking trails and 45 miles of carriage roads, Acadia provides endless opportunities to experience nature. This guidebook directs you to 21 of the best short hiking trails on Mount Desert Island, the main part of the park. Included are concise descriptions and detailed maps of mostly short, easy-to-follow trails that lead to some of the park's most scenic destinations. With hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this book is for everyone, including families.

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Trails from the "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park" Guide Book
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... Preview: One of Acadia’s more popular trails on the west side of Somes Sound, the Acadia Mountain Trail is a tough scramble up to spectacular views of Somes Sound, the ocean, and surrounding mountains. But as ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Southwest Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.8 miles
... Preview: The Bar Island Trail is a short easy jaunt within shouting distance of Bar Harbor, but you feel transported to another world. That is the beauty of being on an island, even a small one so close to a b ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.4 miles
... Preview: The Beachcroft Trail climbs to the shoulder of Huguenot Head, with an average elevation gain of 100 feet each tenth of a mile, but at times it feels remarkably like a walk along a garden path. The gra ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.4 miles
... Preview: We hiked the Bear Brook Trail early one morning, and saw a blanket of fog roll in to Frenchman Bay, enveloping the Porcupine Islands in the space of a few minutes. Amazingly, the ridgetop trail contin ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.2 miles
... Preview: This is the easier of two ways to access Beech Cliff and its views, because the trailhead is basically at the same elevation as the cliff. Enjoy cliff-top views of Echo Lake and beyond. This trail may ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Southwest Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.8 miles
... Preview: This trail offers views of Long Pond, Somes Sound, and the surrounding scenery from 839-foot Beech Mountain, which is topped by a fire tower. Beech Mountain rises from a thin peninsula-like ridge of l ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Southwest Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.1 miles
... Preview: By going up into the gap between South and North Bubbles, this trail provides the shortest route up either of the distinctive rounded mountains that overlook Jordan Pond. The trip also takes you to Bu ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Seal Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: You gain a new appreciation for Cadillac Mountain on this trail, with plaques describing the geology of Mount Desert Island and the spectacular views from Acadia’s highest summit, at 1,532 feet. From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.5 miles
... Preview: Good things come in small packages, as this little hike proves. Day Mountain is only 583 feet in elevation and a mere 0.5 mile from the trailhead, but it provides close-up views of the Cranberry Isles ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Seal Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.6 miles
... Preview: Like other lake and pond hikes in Acadia, the Eagle Lake Trail can be walked just for its water views, or for the access it provides to nearby mountains. What we feel is particularly special about thi ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 4 miles
... Preview: Flying Mountain is one of the lowest peaks in Acadia, yet it offers some of the best views. It can be climbed as part of a short out-and-back scramble of as little as 0.6-mile round trip, or as part o ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Southwest Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.2 miles
... Preview: The Gorham Mountain Trail provides some of the most rewarding views in Acadia for relatively modest effort, featuring nearly uninterrupted ridge-top panoramas of everything from Great Head and Sand Be ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles
... Preview: The Great Pond Trail is a pleasant walk that offers the possibility of sunning on big, flat rocks, or seeing dozens of herring gulls soar on the wind above what is known as Long or Great Pond. The tra ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Southwest Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 5.8 miles
... Preview: First created nearly 100 years ago as part of a garden path that connected to downtown Bar Harbor, Jesup Path leads from the Park Loop Road to the Sieur de Monts Spring area and the mountain pond know ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: A lot is packed into this short interpretive trail: Panoramic views of Jordan Pond and the distinctive Bubbles on its far shore, and lessons in history and nature. But, because it is so accessible, be ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Seal Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.5 miles
... Preview: A vigorous walk around Jordan Pond, capped by afternoon tea and popovers on the lawn of the Jordan Pond House—it’s one of those special Acadia experiences. The trail starts from the boat ramp at the J ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Seal Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.3 miles
... Preview: The sounds of the ocean and the views of rocky cliffs and pink granite shoreline are never far from Ocean Path. At Thunder Hole, halfway along the path, when the conditions are just right, the surf cr ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 4 miles
... Preview: A hike on the Great Head peninsula is a perfect way to break up a lazy afternoon lounging on Sand Beach. A relatively modest scramble up the rocky slope of Great Head leads you to spectacular views of ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.4 miles
... Preview: The drama of the sea crashing against the pink granite cliffs of Acadia is the greatest reward of this easy trail. But there are also other, smaller pleasures, like seeing ocean ducks known as common ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Southwest Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.3 miles
... Preview: Views of a great blue heron taking off low across the water’s surface, or of a turkey vulture soaring high on the thermals, are among the possible rewards when you hike to The Bowl, a mountain pond at ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Acadia National Park"
Bar Harbor, ME - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.6 miles

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