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Gary Stellpflug leads highly skilled Acadia hiking trails crew

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If you’ve ever marveled at Acadia National Park’s hiking trails, here’s a chief reason they look so good: Gary Stellpflug, the Acadia trails foreman. In this Q&A with Stellpflug, find out what he revealed during a National Trails Day hike on the Valley Trail, and his updates of trail work throughout the park. There’s no better way to celebrate Acadia’s 103rd anniversary of being founded as a national monument on July 8, 1916, than to appreciate the work of the Acadia trails crew and volunteers.

Message to the future in Acadia time capsule, for the year 2116

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If you celebrated the Acadia Centennial, you won’t be there for the opening of the Acadia time capsule in the year 2116. But you can hand down the generations the story of how you marked the 100th, and how there may be evidence of it in a special steel box in the Bar Harbor Bank and Trust lobby. Livestream of time capsule installation Feb. 3 at 1:30 pm.

Acadia year in review: Top news and blog posts, and 2017 ideas and resolutions

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Without a doubt, the top news for Acadia National Park in 2016 was the Acadia Centennial, not only as celebration and time to reflect on past and future, but also as a big draw, helping to push visitation over 3.2 million, the highest since 1990. This Acadia year in review rounds up some of the […]

Special Acadia holiday gift ideas to ring out the Centennial year

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For the Acadia National Park fan on your shopping list, or for a year-end charitable donation, the Centennial offers a once-in-a-century set of Acadia holiday gift ideas. Plus we’re announcing 2 new merchants to our blog’s affiliated marketing partnerships on this Cyber Monday, to make coming up with special Acadia holiday gift ideas even easier: REI, where […]

Acadia Centennial Trek Challenge: Run, walk 100 miles, or shop for the park

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This time of year, as we think of giving, gratitude, and the end of the Centennial, we’ve come up with a new idea to celebrate and help raise extra funds for the park: The Acadia Centennial Trek Challenge. The idea came to us after we got a Friends of Acadia Annual Fund mailing this weekend. […]

Global field of 400 racers covers 30,000 miles in Acadia virtual runs

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To celebrate the Acadia Centennial, nearly 400 people from around the world have crisscrossed virtual routes on Mount Desert Island this year, collectively logging more than 30,000 miles of running, hiking or walking, and helping to raise funds for the park. Among the most recent finishers of the Acadia virtual runs: 10-year-old Lukas Modrusan of […]

Acadia Centennial year nears end with volunteer day, time capsule

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The summer crowds are gone, fall foliage just a memory, but the Acadia Centennial celebration continues with Take Pride in Acadia Day on Nov. 5, with volunteers getting carriage roads ready for winter, and Acadia Bicentennial Time Capsule dedication on Dec. 10.

And they’re off! Global field of racers start MDI virtual runs

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The virtual starting pistol has just sounded for the first-ever virtual running of the Mount Desert Island Marathon and Half. Racer BenJammin has pulled out in front, Dbawn is not too far behind, and a field of nearly 100 racers from around the world, from Australia to New Mexico, is in pursuit. It’s not too […]

On your marks! ‘Princesses,’ ‘witch’ join first MDI virtual runs to help Acadia

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Racers with fun names like Incaprincess, SkiPrincess, TrailWitch and Sanity Clause – some hailing from as far away as Australia, Texas and New Mexico – are lining up at the start for the first-ever virtual runs of the Mount Desert Island Marathon and Half, to help raise funds for Acadia. The virtual gun goes off […]

Acadia fall foliage just one highlight of rest of Centennial year

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The days are shorter, the nights chillier, and Acadia fall foliage is getting ready to put on its spectacular color show. The season to visit Acadia National Park has been gradually getting longer, and this year, Centennial events promise to make the fall – and even winter – busier than ever. With about 100 days left in the […]