Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ocean Path is one of Acadia’s most iconic and accessible trails. Running parallel to Park Loop Road, this mostly flat path ...

One of the charms of Acadia is the way subtle human “improvements” work with the park’s thick spruce-fir forests, rugged mountains, and steep cliffs to make it all accessible—and just a bit thrilling.

For all its internationally celebrated beauty, New England only has one true national park that is entirely its own. But what a national park it is! Located on the scenic Atlantic coast of Maine, ...

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Looking up from the Park Loop Road, the notion of walking up Champlain Mountain’s eastern face seems like a joke: the Precipice is all rock, rising straight up 1,000 feet. Yet a footpath of sorts — a ...

A figure-eight trail winding through a boreal forest, this one’s also largely about the destination: a pink-granite shore, where waves crash spectacularly at high tide and pools of tiny seaweed ...

All this year we've asked our Conor Knighton to head out ON THE TRAIL. It's an appreciation of our National Parks in this, their Centennial Year. And to begin, he's at our easternmost National Park -- ...

The Ocean Path is one of Acadia’s most iconic and accessible trails. Running parallel to Park Loop Road, this mostly flat path connects Sand Beach to Otter Point and offers nonstop views of rocky ...