Our real goal was to walk the Otter Cliffs trail to get some photos of the cliffs where Kathy Frost had been pushed off the cliff to her death by her husband, the story is on my site Deaths In Acadia national Park in chronological order. We also did a blog People Killed In Acadia National Park..
So we got the photos of the cliffs we wanted and walked back through the picnic area and out onto the Otter Creek Road a short ways, when I saw a small field I wanted to check out. To the far left corner of the field was a couple of apple tree's plum full of apples. The apples were on the small side and sour, too bad, there was a number of apple pies just begging to be made.
As I was taking photos of the apple tree's, I noticed what appeared to look like a trail in the woods on the other side of the apple tree, so we checked it out. Sure enough, it was an old trail, or road. My son say road, but to me it appears to be too narrow for a road, but it was in very good shape for how old it was, as you can see in the photos. Clear away some of the fallen tree's and you have a ready to go trail.
So to the left of the trail we could see one end of it, blocked off by two large boulders, with tree's and brush blocking the view of the trail from the Otter Creek road. So we followed the trail to the right, and for most of the way the trail remained in very good condition and very easy to follow. But the final forth of the trail the good path we had been following quickly ended in what amounted to a deer trail, which we continued to follow. It led to a large parking lot which I would guess was located just up past the Gorham Mountain Parking Lot.
We need to do one more trip back there to see if there is more to this trail, we will update on it in a week or two. Until than you can see the photos we took of the trail the other day.
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| The Monument at Otter Cliffs, Acadia National Park |
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| Otter Cliff Road can be seen from one end of abandoned trail - Acadia national Park |
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| WAVES AT OCEAN DRIVE - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK |
Sounds like it might be the road mentioned here: http://fromthecreek.com/blog/?p=1395 Lots of interesting history in that article!
ReplyDeleteI had sent an email to Matt about this site telling him I thought that was what it was, but kept it out of the post until we knew for sure. We still have to return and follow the trail in the other direction. Can't wait to get back there.....
ReplyDeleteWe were there today and followed the old road (which turns into a path toward the end, as you said) from Otter Cliffs Road to the parking area at Otter Point. It's in great condition except for the large blowdowns but they are easy enough to step over and work your way through. We were hoping to find a trail or road leading up to the high point where the tower once stood, but we couldn't find anything. Just the old road that went straight through.
ReplyDeleteWe have gone there twice now in search of this path or road that leads to where the tower was located and haven't found it yet, though others have written that it is there. That's what makes researching this stuff so much fun, there is always another abandoned site just waiting for some one to locate it.
ReplyDeleteYes, after checking out that link, it sounds like what we located. We need to do a bit more searching in that area next spring.
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