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Experience Acadia Park With Us

Your Dream Acadia Vacation - Outdoors Activities

Experience Acadia Park with us on your dream Acadia vacation. Outdoor activities are one of the best ways to get to know Acadia National Park!

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If you've already explored Acadia via the Park Loop Road, you know how varied and beautiful the well-traveled areas are. But, if you really want to get to know Acadia Park, then we suggest you get outdoors and experience all that Acadia has to offer. There are hardly any limits to what you can do...

Active Sports

Sarah rock climbing on Otter CliffsYou can do so many outdoor, active sports at Acadia, provided the weather is cooperative. Some can be done all year long (or nearly), while others will be more suited to particular seasons.

Some sports are more strenuous than others. Some are better for families, while others might be considered more extreme. But there's definitely something for everyone.

Do you love to be out in nature as we do? Or do you see the outdoor activities more as means to an end... as more of a way to see Acadia Park, rather than as a fun activity in and of themselves?

Hiking is probably the most popular active Acadia sport. Hiking will enable you to see all different parts of Acadia National Park, both the crowded parts and also the "off the beaten track" parts.

Acadia Hiking

Hiking Acadia


Acadia Biking

Biking is another fun outdoor activity families and individuals can do in Acadia National Park and in the surrounding areas on Mount Desert Island. Whether you like hills or prefer to coast along on the flats, there is a biking trail or path for you.

Learn more about Acadia biking here

There are many other outdoor activities you can partake in too. We've done a couple of them... rock climbing on one glorious day at Otter Cliffs... and canoeing every Acadia vacation at Long Pond.

Getting ready to canoe Long Pond

Learn more about how you can canoe, rock climb, kayak and more

Other Things to Do Outside the Park

Maine Lumberjack ShowYou don't have to be physically fit to experience Acadia Park, though it helps to have some degree of fitness. But there are other things to do too, such as movies, shopping, museums, etc.

You can learn more about those options by following the link above.

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