Hadlock Falls
Maine Week Travelog #9½
Acadia National Park - Wednesday, 16 Jun 2021, 9pm.
Oops, I got two of my blogs out of order. Before taking it easy Wednesday night and planning not to get up at 3:30am to visit Cadillac Mountain at sunrise we did one more hike. Yes, that hike was after our epic loop to The Beehive, the Bowl, and Gorham Mountain and the pink sea cliffs. We added on another 2 miles or so by foot to the day's adventure hiking to Hadlock Falls.
Hadlock Falls is in the less-visited western side of Acadia National Park. Here the mountain peaks are lower and the tourist facilities are fewer, though the trails are still plentiful. The park's in more of a primitive state. Part of that primitive state is the network of carriage roads.
Carriage Roads are a throwback to the early days of the park. Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller hated seeing motor vehicles in parks- ironic because he was a robber-baron of the oil industry- and donated money to build a network of no-cars-allowed roads in the 1910s through 1940s. At first these carriage roads were used for horseback riding and horse-drawn carriages. Today horses are quite uncommon on these roads while bicycles are a more common sight. (And yes, there are strict rules on bicycles with motors. We mustn't disobey the wishes dead billionaire robber barons!)
Anyway, we hiked up a few of these carriage roads to the falls then came back down a steeper foot trail. It was a good change of pace to connect with the park's past, even if that past was a 1%er's anachronistic fantasy from Day One.
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Acadia National Park - Wednesday, 16 Jun 2021, 9pm.
Oops, I got two of my blogs out of order. Before taking it easy Wednesday night and planning not to get up at 3:30am to visit Cadillac Mountain at sunrise we did one more hike. Yes, that hike was after our epic loop to The Beehive, the Bowl, and Gorham Mountain and the pink sea cliffs. We added on another 2 miles or so by foot to the day's adventure hiking to Hadlock Falls.
Hadlock Falls is in the less-visited western side of Acadia National Park. Here the mountain peaks are lower and the tourist facilities are fewer, though the trails are still plentiful. The park's in more of a primitive state. Part of that primitive state is the network of carriage roads.
Carriage Roads are a throwback to the early days of the park. Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller hated seeing motor vehicles in parks- ironic because he was a robber-baron of the oil industry- and donated money to build a network of no-cars-allowed roads in the 1910s through 1940s. At first these carriage roads were used for horseback riding and horse-drawn carriages. Today horses are quite uncommon on these roads while bicycles are a more common sight. (And yes, there are strict rules on bicycles with motors. We mustn't disobey the wishes dead billionaire robber barons!)
Anyway, we hiked up a few of these carriage roads to the falls then came back down a steeper foot trail. It was a good change of pace to connect with the park's past, even if that past was a 1%er's anachronistic fantasy from Day One.
[This entry was cross-posted from https://canyonwalker.dreamwidth.org/74876.html. Please comment there using OpenID. That's where most of the action is!]