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Though Acadia National Park’s opening delayed by sequester, cyclists encouraged to visit while roads restricted
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — The local business community is not thrilled about the federal budget-related delay in opening Acadia National Park’s seasonal facilities, but at least one group is expected to benefit by not having cars on the park’s paved roads, according to officials: road cyclists. Most of Acadia’s ...
Acadia National Park rangers seek person who illegally cut trees
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — Somebody took it upon themselves to clear some vegetation near a popular climbing spot on Champlain Mountain and park rangers are trying to find out who. Doing anything to change the landscape in Acadia National Park, without approval from park officials, violates federal law. According ...
Park rangers rescue 19-year-old Florida hiker from atop Cadillac
By Aimee Thibodeau, BDN Staff on Jan. 01, 2013, at 11:41 a.m.
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — A 19-year-old woman who wasn’t dressed for the conditions had to be rescued Tuesday morning from Cadillac Mountain. Supervisory Park Ranger Richard Rechholtz said the 911 call came in around 7:30 a.m. that a woman was “kind of conscious, not alert and had some heart ...
Acadia rangers rescue hiker on Thanksgiving
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — A hiker on Cadillac Mountain ended up with something unexpected to be thankful for last week after rangers helped her down the mountain, according to park rangers. Ranger Richard Rechholtz said Monday that the woman, who is 52 years old and from the Mount Desert ...
Acadia campground reopens
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — Blackwoods Campground, a year-round camping facility located in the park near Otter Cove, has reopened now that the worst of a severe fall storm has blown through the state. The campground was closed Monday in anticipation of high winds generated by Hurricane Sandy, which blew ...
COA students resuscitate instructor in Acadia
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — A field trip Thursday into the park for College of the Atlantic students studying natural history turned into a refresher course on CPR when the class instructor suddenly took ill, according to rangers. Scott Swann, 53, lecturer at COA, had taken a group of about ...
3 Acadia hikers injured in falls on same day
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — Three people sustained head injuries in two separate incidents Monday morning in the park, adding to a busy summer of hiking related injuries in Acadia this year, according to park officials. A 65-year-old man from Texas was at Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse around 10 a.m. ...
Dog suffers heat stroke, has to be rescued while hiking in Acadia with Canadian owners
BAR HARBOR, Maine — The proverbial dog days of summer arrived at Acadia National Park this weekend. Just ask Oolum, a 100-pound-plus, long-haired Newfoundland who had to be rescued Saturday afternoon from 90-degree heat while hiking with his Canadian owners on the north ridge of Dorr Mountain. A team of ...
Acadia urges carriage road bike safety
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — Park rangers are urging bicyclists to use caution on the park’s series of carriage roads after a couple minor bike accidents earlier this week. “The carriage roads are great, but they’re gravel and have sliding surfaces,” Supervisory Ranger Edward Pontbriand said Wednesday. “Some kids are ...
Hiker injured on Dorr Mountain
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — A French man was injured Sunday while hiking along a trail with a view of Frenchman Bay, according to a park ranger. The 40-year-old man was hiking up the Kurt Diedrich’s Trail toward the summit of Dorr Mountain when he slipped, Ranger Richard Rechholtz said ...
Lightning strike hits couple in tent at Acadia
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — A lightning strike Friday night at Blackwoods Campground injured a couple sleeping in a tent. Richard Rechholtz, a park ranger supervisor, said Sunday that the storm produced lightning that struck a vehicle at the campground. The electrical current “somehow transferred to the tent” the couple ...
Wet weather blamed for injuries in Acadia National Park
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — Wet weather is responsible for some incidents this week in Acadia National Park in which hikers have slipped and injured themselves, according to a park official. Park rangers and other emergency response personnel have come to the assistance of four hikers in the past three ...
Acadia trails reopened after loon, peregrine falcon nesting efforts fail
on June 22, 2012, at 8:12 p.m.
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, Maine — Trails and sections of Acadia National Park that had been closed off to the public because of nesting loons and peregrine falcons have been reopened, park officials announced Friday. The reopened areas include a section of Hadlock Trail and Valley Cove Trail. Closures at Beech ...
Old Town teacher one of 18 in nation to win Presidential Innovation Award
OLD TOWN, Maine — An Old Town High School teacher is one of 18 in the nation to receive the 2012 Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators. Ed Lindsey, who teaches ninth-grade earth science and 11th- and 12th-grade chemistry courses, credited the award to his work on a project that ...
Acadia rangers help injured climber, possibly suicidal man
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — An injured rock climber, a suicidal subject and an apparent theft attempt from a motor vehicle kept rangers pretty busy on Thursday. All incidents ended relatively well, however, Ranger Ed Pontbriand said Friday morning. Aside from a broken car window, the only damage rangers had ...
Water main complicates Acadia road closure
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — Sometimes a retaining wall does more than just keep soil and rocks in place. Along Duck Brook Road in Maine’s only national park, where part of a man-made embankment gave way last week, it also helps to support the road. The section of road where ...
Wall falls in Acadia National Park, forces closure of road
on April 18, 2012, at 3:31 p.m.
BAR HARBOR, Maine — A retaining wall approximately 10 feet high and 20 feet wide that supports part of the Duck Brook Road in Acadia National Park collapsed on Wednesday, according to Keith Johnston of Acadia National Park. Johnston said the supporting wall fell about 200 yards north of the ...
Acadia park ranger lives ‘dream job’ during winter months
BAR HARBOR, Maine — Chris Wiebusch’s workdays are often full of ice skating, snowmobiling, hiking, boating or cross-country skiing through Acadia National Park. But on temperate days like Saturday when the sky spits wet, sloppy snow, there aren’t many transportation options for park rangers to choose from aside from driving ...
Acadia gets $1.3 million for bus system improvements
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — With the help of a $1.3 million federal grant, the park is planning to improve bus stop facilities for the free Island Explorer bus system later this year. The $1,324,518 grant will fund construction of and improvements to nine Island Explorer bus stops at park ...
In rite of fall, Acadia closes visitor center
The Associated Press on Oct. 30, 2011, at 9:32 a.m.
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — In an annual rite of fall, Acadia National Park is closing one of its visitor centers and its Sand Beach entrance station as the cold-weather season arrives. Park officials say the Hulls Cove visitor center and the Sand Beach station are closing Monday for the ...
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From a mountaintop…of sorts