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Jordan Pond House is a restaurant in Seal Harbor, Maine.It is situated at the southwestern corner of the Park Loop Road, overlooking Jordan Pond from its southern shore. Two roche moutonnées, known as "The Bubbles", provide the backdrop to the view from the house's lawn at the rear of the 60 acres (24 ha) property.
The pond is ringed by a walking trail, from which trails branch off to other park features. One of the park's original carriage trails runs along an adjacent ridge. [4] [5] The Jordan family of Seal Harbor, for whom the pond is named, built a farmhouse near the pond. In the 1870s a restaurant known as the Jordan Pond House was built.
Park Loop Road is a scenic road through part of Acadia National Park in Maine, United States. 27 miles (43 km) long, [1] it traverses the eastern side of Mount Desert Island in a (mostly) one-way, clockwise direction, from Bar Harbor to Seal Harbor.
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A 2.2-mile (3.5 km) trail circumnavigates the pond, while an offshoot leads to Jordan Pond House. Mostly flat on its eastern side, it rises somewhat from the pond's northern end to around halfway down its western side. [4] Little Long Pond includes 17 acres of meadows, 12 acres of marsh, a bog and nearly 1,000 acres of forest. [2]
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Jordan Stream is a watercourse, about 1.4 miles (2.3 km) long, in the American village of Seal Harbor, Maine. [2] [3] It originates at the southern end of Jordan Pond, in the nearby town of Mount Desert, and flows directly south to its mouth at the northern end of Little Long Pond. [1] The Jordan Stream valley is pre-glacial.