Page 17 - (DK Eyewitness) Top 10 Travel Guide - New England

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Hulls Cove
3 Bar
Town Hill
Harbor
3
Somesville Eagle 8
Pretty Acadia Lake 5
Marsh National Park
1
Long 0
Pond
Northeast 6
Harbor
7 Southwest Seal Harbor
Seal Cove
Cadillac Mountain
5 Tremont Harbor Cranberry Little
Cranberry
Great
It’s worth rising early to hike
Island
Island
or drive up 1,527-ft (465-m) Cadillac Bass Seawall
Mountain (above) to catch the first 4 Harbor
rays of the sun to strike the US. Map of Mount Desert Island

Sand Beach
Abbe Museum
Thunder Hole
6 8 0
Explore 10,000
Rugged cliffs and
Swift tides and
strong waves pounding years of Native-American jumbled ledges line most
the craggy ledges culture in this of Acadia’s shoreline,
at Thunder museum but thousands of visitors
Hole force air devoted to flock to this 870-ft
and water into the heritage (265-m) stretch of sandy
a deep crease of Maine’s cove (below) to sunbathe.
beneath the Wabanaki Swimming is bracing, as
rock. Under the peoples. See the ocean water rarely
right conditions, basketry (left) exceeds 55º F (15º C).
a ground-shaking and wood-carving at
thunderclap echoes the small outpost in the
from the hole. National Park in summer.
Hiking Trails
Southwest
7 9
Harbor
To penetrate the
This snug harbor, tucked deep wilderness or get
inside two lobes of up close and personal
Mount Desert Island, with the mountains of
is delightfully tranquil Acadia National Park,
and picturesque. Take a use the network of more
lobster-hauling boat ride than 120 miles (193 km)
or catch the Cranberry of trails. They range from
Isles ferry here. easy to very strenuous.
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