There are 63 national parks in the U.S. but only one in the Northeast. Acadia is located along the coast of Maine, near Bar Harbor. The nearest major airport is Maine's Bangor International Airport.

Crushed stone crunches under feet, bike tires, and horse hooves on a late spring day in Acadia National Park. Finally free of snow, the popular carriage roads are open, and visitors inhale the ...

Waves crash against a rocky shore beneath a picturesque lighthouse as seabirds soar and dive overhead. Ancient mountains rise above the rugged, indented coastline, rounded by the ages and covered with ...

Visitors at Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park on day three of the federal government shutdown on Friday. (Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer) ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — The entrances to America’s ...

Something about the bracing smell of salt water, the plaintive cry of gulls, and the crashing of waves against rocky shores opens all my senses to the joy at hand: exploring Maine’s famous coastline ...

Miles Howard is a regular Globe Ideas contributor and author of the Substack newsletter Mind the Moss. I first saw Acadia National Park’s iconic oceanside cliffs years ago through the windshield of a ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: If you have kids in tow, see Acadia from the water with Diver Ed's Dive-In Theater boat cruise. Diver Ed goes overboard with a camera (that feeds to a viewing screen onboard), ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are 63 national parks in the U.S. but only one in the Northeast. The land itself has drawn people for thousands of years.