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The Island Explorer is a seasonal bus system which provides fare-free transportation on and near Mount Desert Island in Maine, United States.It is operated by Downeast Transportation and is largely intended to serve visitors to Acadia National Park as a means to reduce area traffic within the park and in area communities, including the Schoodic Peninsula.
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.
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.
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.
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HAER No. ME-13, "Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor", 20 photos, 7 color transparencies, 4 measured drawings, 139 data pages, 3 photo caption pages HAER No. ME-31, " Cobblestone Bridge, Spanning Jordan Stream on Gardiner–Mitchell Hill–Jordan Stream Carriage Road, Seal Harbor ", 4 photos, 6 data pages, 1 photo ...
[7] [8] Acadia has been described as one of the top national parks for celestial views. [9] In 2023, the National Park Service held "Acadia Night Sky Week," a series of free public programs for visitors. [10] [11] The NPS provides shuttle services to the festival. [12]
It is located four miles (6 km) east of Bar Harbor, Maine, as the crow flies. The Schoodic Peninsula contains 2,266 acres (9 km 2), or approximately 5% of Acadia National Park. It includes the towns of Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor. The peninsula has a rocky granite shoreline containing many volcanic dikes.