Visitation in Acadia has jumped 70% in the last 10 years, bringing with it the need for more employees to help make sure park operations run as smoothly as possible. Skip to content.

Friends of Acadia has purchased an inn to help Acadia National Park to help address a housing crisis, with fewer than 100 beds for the 160 seasonal positions the park wants to fill.

For 2021, Acadia is projected to top more than 4 million visits for the first time in its history. Friends of Acadia was founded in 1986, the year that Acadia’s legislative boundary was established.

This caused so many problems. 911 was called. That is not the experience people want when they come to Acadia,” Schneider said. In order to combat the problems that crowds bring to the park, Acadia ...

Over the last five years, Friends of Acadia and Acadia National Park, with support from its partners at the local and federal ...

Carriage road photo by Friends of Acadia. 1. Ride bikes on the Carriage roads… Park Loop Road photo by Doug Kerr on Flickr/Creative Commons.

Join Friends of Acadia for the organization’s annual meeting on Wednesday, July 9, at 4 p.m. at the Bar Harbor Club to ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - A local organization dedicated to Acadia National Park celebrated the last year and looked ahead Wednesday night. Friends of Acadia came together at the Bar Harbor Club for ...

Now supported by Friends of Acadia, volunteers have been caring for the trails since the 1980s. Initially, they used homemade groomers — like cinderblocks and box springs towed behind ...

When we asked Martha Stewart where to send her honorarium for guest editing this issue, she asked that it go to Friends of Acadia, the national park stewardship group to which she’d recently made a ...

SEAL HARBOR, Maine (WABI) - Acadia National Park has built some of its new seasonal workforce housing on a lot that used to be home to a gravel pit. Tuesday, a ribbon cutting was held at Dane Farm ...