Acadia National Park Visits Highest in 20 Years

Maine Public | By Ed Morin

Published February 3, 2016 at 3:47 PM EST

BAR HARBOR, Maine - The number of visitors to Acadia National Park last year was the highest in 20 years.

Management assistant John Kelly says the park had a total 2.81 million visits in 2015. Kelly says it's a little hard to say why visits fluctuate, but he says officials are promoting Acadia heavily in it centennial year.

Kelly says the park's most popular attractions continue to be Jordan Pond, Cadillac Mountain and Ocean Drive with Thunder Hole and Sand Beach, "and we encourage visitors to explore beyond those areas and to look at ways to enjoy different parts of Acadia, as well as those."

Kelly says the park is in the early stages of a transportation plan, which aims to improve the visitor experience while relieving parking congestion and roadway traffic. He says officials hope to have the plan out by 2018.

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Ed Morin

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.

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