Cedar Swamp Mountain holds a secret many don't know of, a secret that claimed the lift of retired Air force Captain Robert McGaunn.
He refueled at Boston's Logan International Airport, before continuing on with his flight. While flying through bad weather from PA to Newfoundland, his plane suddenly disappeared without a trace. A search was conducted for the missing plane but nothing was found.
Three months later a pilot from nearby Trenton Maine flying over Cedar Swamp Mountain spotted the wreckage and reported it in. The body of the pilot was recovered, but the wreckage of the plane was left on the mountain side.
The pilot died strapped into his seat and the seat still rests near the mountain top. The crash site and its wreckage is said to be located very close to the top of the summit. The plane crash took place on 30 June 1970.
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| CEDAR SWAMP MOUNTAIN PLANE CRASH SITE ACADIA NATIONAL PARK GPS for crash site; Near 44.31667 N, -68.26667 W |
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| CEDAR SWAMP MOUNTAIN - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK |
GPS for crash site; Near 44.31667 N, -68.26667 W
VIDEO OF ACTUAL CRASH SITE
CEDAR SWAMP MOUNTAIN PLANE CRASH VIDEO
JOE'S GUIDE TO CEDAR SWAMP MOUNTAIN
THE MEMORIALS OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK - PLANE CRASH
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| HOTEL EVERARD Cottage Street, Bar Harbor |
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| THE DEGREGOIRE Bar Harbor |
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| THE MEN'S SHOP 7 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor |
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| SCHOOL STREET STORES Bar Harbor |
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| SIEUR de MONTS PARK Bar Harbor |
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| KEBO VALLEY CLUB GOLF EXHIBITION Bar Harbor |
PLANE CRASH LANDS AT KEBO GOLF COURSE
Thanks for the post. I tried to find this crash site twice last fall while staying in Blackwood. All my effort was to no avail. I was using a description given to me from fellow campers. I'm back to Blackwood next week and am sure I will have better results because of your post. I'd like to thank you in general for the time, effort and resources you make available to folks like me. My family has been coming to Acadia for 32 years straight and have always had an interest in phantom trails after reading "Trails of History". With the park attendance continue to increase it had been become harder to find trails that are not heavily used so your site will offer us new places off the beaten track that we haven't yet discovered.
ReplyDeleteRDH, hey we spoke on my blog just a few days ago, the Cedar Swamp Plane Crash site has a chapter in my second Acadia book but it's not out yet. It is very easy to get to though. Once you're at the top, reading the summit sign, you want to go to your right/north and slightly downhill towards the treeline. There is a faint but easy to follow path that will lead you down just a couple hundred feet to the wreckage. Hope this helps. Oh and hi JR Libby, haven't talked to you in a while, I'll send you a copy once the new book is done.
ReplyDeleteHi Matt, glad to see your still into Abandoned Trails. I posted a GPS on the site which I obtained from a government site, I have always wanted to visit the site but ongoing foot problems restrict how much walking I can do. He crashed high up on the mountain side, not too far from the summit. With all that information available to him, its hard to believe he still decided to fly into that bad weather.
ReplyDeleterdh...if you have GPS device you can use that to locate the crash site, which is not too far from the summit. I put up a link to a Youtube video on the crash site, not my video and the quality of it could be better but it does give you an idea of that the area looks like, there is plane wreckage strewn all around the area.
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