ABANDONED TRAILS OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: ABANDONED SECTION OF CADILLAC NORTH RIDGE TRAIL

We had located one section of this abandoned trail down a number of years ago but after a couple tries we finally located other sections of it. This was one of the original Cadillac North Ridge trails that began down by East St. and I believe it is most likely it was abandoned because it crossed private property. Because East Street is private property we did not go down to the street, but it appears the old trail followed the side of a tiny brook, the old trail crosses the official hiking trail, GPS on map, and continues to follow the edge of that tiny brook. As the old path gets closer to the One Way section of the Park Loop Road it is wider and smoother going. At the Loop road you cross the roadway at an angle to where you see a small gully going up into the woods. Just before the gully is a storm drain. From there the path is almost a road and very easy to follow until you come to a sharp curve, shortly after the curve the trail just seems to end. We did scout out the area and located two rock piles and that was it. We need to search one more area further up, but what we have documented so far might be the best we can do. On old maps this trail ran upward and connected to the official trail used today