Acadia National Park

Of the spots I’ve covered in this notebook, Acadia National Park is the one I most often recommend to people who ask where to go with a week and a camera.

The trip in is less complicated than it looks on a map, provided you’re flexible about where you sleep.

You can spend three days at Acadia National Park and only scratch the surface of the granite coast and spruce fir forest.

My default advice is to go june and september. Outside that window there are still good days here, but the baseline quality drops.

Gear advice is boring: something long, something short, and enough layers that you’re not rearranging in the car.

My most memorable morning there was mid-season, soft fog, two dozen birds in a thirty-minute window, and I remember about three of them.

Anyone who tells you Acadia National Park is an easy place hasn’t been on a day where the wind picked up by nine.

If you go, take nothing, leave nothing, and be quieter than you think you need to be.