Ultimate Acadia: 50 Reasons to Visit Maine's National Park

by Virginia M. Wright

Ultimate Acadia is the essential book about Maine's Mount Desert Island, providing everything you need to know to make the most of your time there. Thoroughly revised and updated, the book is compiled as a kind of bucket list, suggesting 50 things to do and see to make the absolute most of your time in Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, and the surrounding villages and environs. It includes history, natural history, geology, profiles of prominent and popular institutions, and loads of useful insider information. This fun, accessible guide is the book to buy before you go to Acadia, and the book to take with you when you leave.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 15, 2016

About the author

Virginia M. Wright has been a journalist in Maine for more than three decades, including 10 years as senior editor of Down East magazine. She's written about such diverse topics as the child-welfare practices that devastated the Wabanaki people, a remote island's struggle to maintain a year-round community, the revival of Maine's oyster industry, a United Nations proposal to promote moose milk (yes, really!), and a rare moth that lives only atop Maine's highest mountain. She's driven the entire 527-mile length of Maine's Route 1, observed the peculiar rituals of one island's daily commute, and helped biologists capture and assess the health of loons on a lake in the middle of the night. Her magazine articles have won eight International Regional Magazine Association awards, including four golds. Current projects include a book about the Maine mountain hamlet of Carrabassett Valley, to be published by Down East Books in November 2024.

Reviews

[Monty Morgan]

If your visiting Bar Harbor or Acadia national park this a great book to get you the highlights of where to visit

Need to have section on Beehive Hike

Other than that good things to go by

[Kim]

Beautiful pictures and good information! Looking forward to doing some of the things recommended on our trip.

[J]

Gives a brief overview of what one can expect upon a visit to Acadia National Park. It highlights popular attractions as well as lesser known gems. I found it peculiar and unnecessary that it included recipes.