Located on Maine's Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park is a vast recreation area on the Atlantic Coast made up of 47,000 acres of rocky beaches, dense woodlands, and ice-topped peaks like majestic Cadillac Mountain, which is the highest point on the East Coast of the United States.

Established in 1916 as the Sieur de Monts National Monument and later renamed as Lafayette National Park and then Acadia National Park in 1929, the National Park is the oldest designated park in the country east of the Mississippi.

The park is home to the bayside town of Bar Harbor, which has several restaurants, cafés, shops, and bars and a plethora of wildlife such as bears, moose, whales, and a diverse variety of seabirds.

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