Itinerary & Accommodations

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Day 1

Arrival in Bangor

Paradise Hill - Witch Hole Pond Loop; 2-3 miles, easy. Sieur de Monts Spring area, Jessup Path, Hemlock Loop, and the Tarn; 4 miles, easy to moderate. Lower Hadlock Pond Loop; 2 miles, easy

Your guide(s) will meet you at the Four Points by Sheraton at 9:00 a.m. in the lobby. Your guide(s) will be wearing a Country Walkers shirt. Please be dressed for walking.

Start out with a walk along one of the park’s carriage roads to Witch Hole Pond, where you enjoy views of Frenchman Bay. After a seaside lunch, an afternoon walk in the Sieur de Monts Spring area leads up past a mountain pond and through beautiful marshland. Tonight you dine at your elegant hotel restaurant while taking in the view of beautiful Northeast Harbor.

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Accommodation: Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor

A simple historic inn housed in a four-story mansion dating from 1883, with beautiful views from the common areas over Northeast Harbor and just minutes from Acadia National Park.

Day 2

Flying Mountain Trail

1-2 miles, easy to moderate. Beech Mt. North Ridge Trail; 2 miles, moderate, or Ship Harbor Trail; 1-2 miles, easy

Explore the “quiet side” of Mount Desert Island on a morning hike up Flying Mountain, which rises 284 feet and gives extraordinary views of Somes Sound. After visiting the iconic Bass Harbor lighthouse in the afternoon, ascend the western flank of Beech Mountain, enjoying views of Long Pond and Blue Hill. This evening, you travel to the village of Southwest Harbor for dinner at a local restaurant offering fine New England cuisine.

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Accommodation: Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor

A simple historic inn housed in a four-story mansion dating from 1883, with beautiful views from the common areas over Northeast Harbor and just minutes from Acadia National Park.

Day 3

Little Cranberry Island

3-4 miles, easy to moderate

Discover one of the secluded islands off Mount Desert’s coast when you catch a private lobster boat to Little Cranberry Island. Here, you visit with a local lobsterwoman and explore the tiny town of Isleford. For dinner, enjoy the ocean’s bounty in Bar Harbor, perhaps ordering fresh steamed lobster or littleneck clams.

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Accommodation: Bar Harbor Inn, Bar Harbor

A Travel + Leisure “World’s Best Hotel.” Located on shady waterfront grounds, this grand resort offers both in-town convenience and an oceanfront location just minutes from Acadia National Park.

Day 4

Jordan Pond

Bubbles Loop; 3-5 miles, easy to moderate

Setting out from Jordan Pond in the park’s interior, follow a trail through blueberry bushes and white birches to a pair of symmetrical hills called the Bubbles. Afterwards, loop back to Jordan Pond House Restaurant for lunch before returning to your accommodation. Later, you celebrate your Acadian adventure at an elegant restaurant, toasting your exploration of this stunning region over creative gourmet cuisine.

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Accommodation: Bar Harbor Inn, Bar Harbor

Day 5

Shore Path

1-2 miles, easy. Great Head Loop; 2 miles, easy to moderate. Ocean Path; 2 miles, easy, or Gorham Mountain Trail; 2 miles, easy to moderate, 500-ft. elevation gain and loss

Follow the rugged Maine coast from Sand Beach past the iconic Thunder Hole (named for the sound of water crashing into a narrow channel) on your way to Otter Cliffs, the highest ocean-edge cliffs in the park. In the afternoon, enjoy a hike along the Gorham Mountain Trail, enjoying views of Champlain Mountain.

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Accommodation: Bar Harbor Inn, Bar Harbor

Day 6

Cadillac Mountain and North Ridge

1-2 miles, moderate

No visit to Acadia is complete without a trip to the top of Cadillac Mountain. Not only is it the highest point in the park at 1,530 feet, but Cadillac Mountain also has the distinction of being the highest point on the entire North American Atlantic coastline. Take in the breathtaking views over Bar Harbor, Frenchman Bay, and the open ocean spread before you.

After stopping for lunch, you arrive at the Bangor Airport by mid-afternoon for your onward travels.

Dates & Prices

2019

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Availability	2019 Dates	Per person, double occupancy	Single Supplement	Reserve Online
Filling Fast!	Jun 16 - Jun 21	$3,248	$848	Reserve Online
Filling Fast!	Aug 25 - Aug 30	$3,248	$848	Reserve Online
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	Sep 22 - Sep 27	$3,248	$848	Reserve Online
	Sep 29 - Oct 4	$3,248	$848	Reserve Online

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Guides

Our guides' experience, dedication, and enthusiasm make them ideal ambassadors for your destination. They chart the course, finesse the details, and speak the language (English, as well as the local language). They also possess a truly rare skill, knowing when to let serendipity and inspiration take the lead.

Randy Judkins

Randy Judkins’ childhood passion for the outdoors allowed him to lead hiking and canoeing trips around his native state of Maine by the age of 20. He is an avid hiker and kayaker and has shared his enthusiasm over the years on walking, cycling, and gourmet food tours and at summer camps. Most importantly, as a professional vaudeville performer, he will keep you entertained on and off the trail (be sure to ask him about juggling!).

Ron Lucier

Ron Lucier makes his home in Stowe, Vermont, where roaming the hills and mountains has been a lifelong passion. Ron spends his winters as a ski instructor, and guides during the summer months with annual visits to the Maine coast where for the past several years he has guided trips in Acadia National Park. Besides spending time on the Maine Coast, Ron enjoys hiking and skiing the world’s mountains and sharing his love for alpine plants, geology, and bird watching.

Carolyn Beecher

Carolyn Beecher first started hiking in Acadia when she was 6 years old with the Appalachian Mountain Club. Her family would stay at the AMC Echo Lake Camp on the west side of Mount Desert Island. The aroma of balsam fir, the taste of blueberries, and the expansive views of the ocean and islands from the granite summits of Acadia touch deep places within her. While she settled in Montana in 1980, gathering experience out in the West as a guide since 1991 in Glacier National Park, as well as in Utah’s canyon country, her excitement about sharing Acadia’s remarkable ecology, history, beauty and peace with you cannot be missed. Carolyn will encourage you to relax your mind, open your senses, and have fun in the present moment, where deep appreciation of the natural world lies.

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