After each ice age, conifers such as spruce and fir trees-alongside countless grasses and weeds-began to reform, decompose, and form soils. Onto the bones of this landscape came plants and then animals. When the glaciers finally retreated for the last time, tens of thousands of years ago, the water melting from the huge ice sheet covering North America swelled the level of the Atlantic high enough to submerge formerly free-flowing river valleys and give Mount Desert Island the distinctive, knuckled-fist shape we know it for today. Huge boulders were swept up and deposited by the ice in odd places, such as the tops of mountains ( Bubble Rock is one). Near Somesville it nearly divided the island in two, creating the only natural fjord in the United States farther “inland,” the slowly flowing ice pushed forward and scooped out several more narrow, parallel valleys that would later be filled by rainwater to form Jordan Pond and Eagle Lake. Ice ages came and went, but the rocks remained the successive waves of great glaciation and retreat scratched up the rocks like old vinyl records, and the thick tongues of pressing ice cut deep notches out of the rock. Now in place, the rocks were once again changed by everything around them. This “collision” (which was more like an extremely slow-motion car wreck), heated, squeezed, transformed, and thrust up the rocks that now form the backbone of Mount Desert Island. Their journey was only beginning, however soon enough (geologically speaking, that is), what is now eastern North America and most of Europe began to shove up against each other, slowly but inexorably. Later, as natural forces such as wind and water wore away the upper layers of rock above these rocks, the rocks began to be exposed. At that time, deep wells of liquid rock known as magma were moving upward, exploding in underground volcanoes, then hardening-still underground, mind you-into granitelike rocks. Both offer gorgeous views of Bar Harbor.The beginnings of Acadia National Park as we see it today are perhaps a half billion years old. At the first junction, right will take you to an old home site, the left will take you up to the highest point of the island. Once on Bar Island, the trail (an old road) heads up through the forest. On the island you will find hiking trails, and picturesque views of Bar Harbor, and Frenchman Bay, but no washroom facitilies. Dogs are allowed on the island and its trails if leashed.
If you are heading up West Street watch for the signpost that indicates where to turn onto Bridge Street to reach the Bar Island Path. Or you can wait about 9 hours for the next low tide. If you get stranded on the island, it’s an expensive water taxi ride back (but at least there are options). Start your morning off by walking the land bridge to Bar Island, followed by a stroll out downtown Bar Harbor, and a visit to Abbe Museum.Ĭheck the timing for low tide as Bar Harbour Island is only reachable along the sand bar for about the 1.5 hours before and up to 1.5 hours after low tide. Don’t forget To Grab Your Acadia Destination Guide.What Should You Not Miss In Acadia National Park?.Day Three: Sunrise, Carriage Roads & Lighthouse.MORNING: Wonderland Trail & Ship Harbor Trail.Day 4: Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, Wonderland Trail & Ship Harbor Trail.MORNING: Acadia National Park Carriage System.Day Three: Acadia Carriage Roads & Asticou Gardens.Bar Harbor, Maine: Visit Downtown, Abbe Museum & Walk the Shore Path.MORNING: Walk to Bar Island – Bar Harbor.MORNING: Sand Beach, Beehive Trail or Ocean Path Trail & Thunder Hole.EARLY MORNING: Cadillac Mountain Sunrise (Optional).Day One: Best of Acadia & Park Loop Road.Eden Village Motel & Cottages – Bar Harbor.The Bar Harbor Inn & Spa – Bar Harbor, ME.
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