The National Park Service, which celebrated 100 years in 2016, attracts millions of visitors each year in New England alone. Here’s a sampling of don’t-miss New England national parks and sites.
New England
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A collection of colorful, stunning photos of Acadia National Park from James Kaiser, author of “Acadia: The Complete Guide.”
A deadly insect threatens New England’s ash trees and a centuries-old Native American tradition—the weaving of beautiful ash baskets.
Magazine
Ashley Bryan | New England’s Gifts
Ashley Bryan’s life story is among the most extraordinary in American arts and letters. The son of West Indian immigrants from Antigua, Bryan was raised in the Bronx. After serving in a segregated Army unit in World War II, he completed a degree at the Cooper Union Art School and pursued a doctorate in philosophy […]
Where can you find the 5 best photo ops in Acadia National Park? We asked photographer Jerry Monkman to share his favorite spots with us.
A beautiful moody sky day at Northeast Creek, Mount Desert Island.
On the edge of the quiet side of Acadia National Park sits Winter Harbor — a fishing village with perhaps the best ocean-view housing deals in New England.
Each day before dawn, hundreds of pilgrims make their way to Acadia National Park’s highest point, eager to claim being the first to watch the sunrise on Cadillac Mountain. A sunrise isn’t so much an event as an experience, I’m thinking on this morning, and there’s not a single sunrise but an infinite number of […]
Maine
Seal Cove Lobster Boats
Seal Cove is located on the quiet side of Mount Desert Island. While traveling around the island one rainy day, we discovered a road that we had never taken before. In the twenty five years that we have been visiting Mount Desert Island, I was astonished that I had never been down this road before. […]
New England
12 Best Picnic Spots in New England
All 12 of these best picnic spots in New England (from hilltops and beaches to orchards and wineries) are well worth the trip.
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Summercater | Lexicon
Over a hundred years ago Mainers used the term “rusticator” to describe aristocrats, who seeking “rusticity,” came and built 100-room shingled “cottages” on Mount Desert Island. “Summercaters” evolved as a term for the more diverse summer tourists who descend upon “Vacationland” each July. Excerpt from “’The New England Sampler,” Yankee Magazine, July 1993.
Yankee Classic from January 1996 If only you had come to Acadia National Park in winter when less than one percent of the year’s three million park visitors pass through. It would have been colder then, but at least you could have had the illusion that all this beauty was yours alone. I drove through […]