National Parks Traveler Episode 110: An Acadia National Park Conversation

By Kurt Repanshek - March 21st, 2021

Just off the coast of Maine lies anchored the oldest national park east of the Mississippi, a park with an artistic flair and blue blood in its founding. Though Acadia National Park is small, coming in around 35,000 acres, it plays much bigger, as they might say in golf. You can explore more than 40 miles of bucolic carriage roads, hike to the top of Cadillac Mountain, search tide pools for marine life at low tide, or kayak the waters surrounding Mount Desert Island.

Kurt Repanshek sits down with Acadia Superintendent Kevin Schneider to talk about his park, the challenges it faces, and how they’re preparing for your visit this summer.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
:53 Otter Point - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:12 Interior Federal Credit Union
1:34 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
2:00 North Cascades Institute
2:17 Washington’s National Park Fund
2:56 An Acadia National Park conversation with Superintendent Kevin Schneider
21:19 Black Woods - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
21:31 National Parks Traveler
21:44 Potrero Group
22:15 Friends of Acadia
22:42 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
23:13 Western National Parks Association
23:50 The conversation with Acadia Superintendent Kevin Schneider continues
39:10 Schoodic - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
39:31 Episode Closing
39:52 Orange Tree Productions
40:27 Splitbeard Productions
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