Acadia National Park Self-Guided Audio Tour

Highlights

Inclusions

Itinerary

1. Acadia National Park & The Hulls Cove Visitor Center, where you purchase park tickets and get maps.

   30 min

2. Your first overlook after entering the park, high above the Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean.

   5 min

3. An exhibit center for park nature and science, plus Wild Gardens and trails like Jesup Path, on the site of Acadia's origin.

   30 min

4. Another view from afar showing you how high up you still are above Bar Harbor and the ocean, before you get closer to sea level.

   5 min

5. A larger, still elevated overlook area with a vista of the sea

   10 min

6. This is a popular, two mile round-trip, moderate loop hike high above the ocean and Sand Beach.

   1 h

7. From the Sand Beach parking lot, head down to the sandy beachfront, or walk up to the Ocean Path and walk parallel to the road and coastline all the way to Otter Point. It's 2.2 miles, or 4.4 miles round trip.

   1 h

8. This is a small inlet, naturally carved out of the rocks, where the waves roll in. At the end of the inlet, down low, is a small cavern where, when the rush of the wave arrives, air and water are forced out like a clap of thunder, with splashes as high as 40 feet to accompany the thunderous roar.

   1 h

9. These cliffs rise a hundred feet above the coast and are a popular rock-climbing spot over the ocean.

   5 min

10. This is the very southern tip of the peninsula, and the other end of the Ocean Path that began back at Sand Beach. The view from here is one of the most spectacular sights along the North Atlatic seaboard.

    5 min

11. This is where the road curves around the inlet known as Otter Cove, featuring a one-of-a-kind stone bridge. The inlet leads to a creek on the other side. This cove is a great place for tidepooling!

    30 min

12. A giant barn holds stables for enormous, strong horses that pull carriages up and down some of the historic carriage roads of Acadia, just as they've done since the days of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who began building them in 1913.

    Passes by

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

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Know before you go

How it compares in Bar Harbor

• Its from-price is 98% below the median of the 12 day trips we list in Bar Harbor.
• It is longer than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 6 of 12.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Bar Harbor

Bar Harbor is a coastal town on Mount Desert Island in Maine and the gateway to Acadia National Park, with granite peaks, rocky shores and lobster boats.

Bar Harbor sits on the north-east shore of Mount Desert Island on the coast of Maine, facing Frenchman Bay and a scatter of small islands. It grew as a summer retreat in the nineteenth century, when wealthy families built large seaside cottages here, and a fire in 1947 destroyed many of those houses. The Shore Path runs along the waterfront, and at low tide a sandbar leads out to Bar Island.

Top-ranked sights in Bar Harbor: Acadia National Park, Village Green, Criterion Theater.

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