Acadia Carriage Roads

Saturday May 28th, 2011

In 1901 a group of wealthy Mount Desert Island summer residents band together and set aside the land that would become Acadia National Park. John D. Rockefeller Jr. was one of the land owners. He thought the serenity and beauty of the area was being threatened by the arrival of the automobile, so in 1913 he started building his system of carriage roads. They were gently graded and lined with broken granite stone. Today 45 miles of these roads crisscross the park and are open to hikers, bikers, and horses. We road 12 miles on the carriage roads today, below are some of the pictures we took along the way.

The gate keepers house at the carriage road entrance near Jordan Pond.

Here comes Linda

Big wide roads with granite guard rails

Signs and markers point the way wherever the carriage roads cross

Horses are allowed and it is a fun way to see the park

There are Waterfalls

streams

crystal clear lakes

panoramic views

and good looking babes all along the roads.

Fiddle Heads

We ended our Saturday with at a potluck with our new workcamper friends over at Mt. Desert Narrows Too, where we had fiddle heads, fried perch and lots more. Fiddle heads are ferns that have just popped out of the ground and have not yet started to unroll they look like the top of a fiddle. They were boiled and served with butter on them.