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Mount Desert Island (MDI; [4] French: Île des Monts Déserts) in Hancock County, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine.With an area of 108 square miles (280 km 2) [5] it is the 52nd-largest island in the United States, the sixth-largest island in the contiguous United States, and the second-largest island on the Eastern Seaboard, behind Long Island and ahead of Martha's Vineyard.
Acadia National Park is a national park of the United States located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor.The park includes about half of Mount Desert Island, part of the Isle au Haut, the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula, and portions of sixteen smaller outlying islands.
The Brown Mountain Gatehouse, also known locally as "The Lodge", is near the southwestern corner of the park on Maine State Routes 3 and 198. It is a small complex consisting of the gatehouse, a caretaker's house, and carriage house, and was designed in the Tudor Revival style by Grosvenor Atterbury. It is built of rubble-stone masonry, with ...
Mount Desert is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,146 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Incorporated in 1789, the town currently encompasses the villages of Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor , Somesville , Hall Quarry, and Pretty Marsh.
The largest town on the bay is Bar Harbor, on Mount Desert Island. The bay extends for roughly 15 miles (24 km) and spans 7 miles (11 km) at its widest. Frenchman Bay with Bar Island on the left and the Porcupine Islands (left-to-right: Sheep, Burnt, Long and Bald) around the town of Bar Harbor from the summit of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia ...
The Maine Coastal Island Registry (CIR) catalogs 3,166 of these coastal islands, along with some notable inland freshwater islands, such as Frye Island in Sebago Lake. According to the most recent CIR data, 1,846 islands are registered to private owners, while 204 islands, which contain four or more structures, are exempt from registration.
There are 3,200 islands off the coast of Maine, [1] the largest being Mount Desert Island. The Maine Island Trail is a recreational water trail that spans the entire coast of Maine, connecting over 200 islands (having originally been thirty) [1] and mainland sites available for day visits or overnight camping. [2]
Lamoine State Park is a public recreation area occupying 55 acres (22 ha) on the shore of Frenchman's Bay in the town of Lamoine, Maine. [1] The state park offers broad views of the mountains on Mount Desert Island, the narrow Eastern Bay portion of Frenchman Bay, and Lamoine's working waterfront. [3]