We cover abandoned trails and forgotten sites located in and around Acadia National Park, and as such the content of our site is unique in that much of the information is covered in detail and in many cases can only be found here. Many but not all of the sites I have personally visited and recorded my findings and while many of the locations talked about are accessible, some locations do have a degree of danger, such as nearby cliffs.
Abandoned Trails was started with a simply quest, to find the location of the route the Green Mountain Railway once took from Eagle Lake to the summit of Green Mountain, today named Cadillac Mountain. Research to that led to a short piece on The Great Cave, located along one side of the Precipice and abandoned today, and research on the Great Cave led to a map with some writing on it, along with an X, Spot where the young girl fell to her death." While researching the death of the 12 year old school girl which occurred just above the Great Cave, which led to another short piece on something called the Hanging Steps, and with each new piece of research came clues to other sites to be investigated and documented, and that is how the site took off.
Some sites I document I have not been to, such as The Great Cave and the Great Cave Loop, now abandoned, I did post updates to my research on the site and possible locations, but it was David Schortmann, along with a group he was with, who gets the credit for locating a cave that was once one the Parks gems but after abandoned, its location became lost to time. Days later Matthew Marchon would visit the cave and give us the first video of the cave, Nick Thorndike would supply us with the location of an almost hidden staircase by the cave leading to the second half of the Great Cave Loop, and Zhanna Galas would visit the site and give us GPS numbers of the trail and cave location, as you can see, this is how things often work out at Abandoned Trails, its rarely ever one person, its a team effort with different ones adding new pieces of information over time, something that I encourage on any site we cover.
Over the years I have been contacted a number of times asking if I would be willing to sit down for a interview - I don't do interviews and almost anything you would want to know can be found on my websites, however, if you still have questions, email them to me and I will do my best to answer them.
I have also been asked a number of times over the years if I would accompany some one out on the trails, and I don't do this either. If you have followed my blog you are aware I suffer from foot issues which have greatly limited how much walking I can do, which is why for the past several years the amount of content I have been able to post has declined.
Over the years I have been contacted and asked to write an article for a publication, I do not write articles because even though I have written two books, I really don't consider myself to be a writer. Everything I post is there for anyone to draw information from and use in any article or publication you want to use it in.
I have been contacted from time to time and asked for personal information - we do not give out personal information on anyone. If you need to contact some one and if I have the information, I will forward that person and let them know you want to reach them and leave it up to them if they wish to respond back.
If you have photos you wish to share on the site feel free to submit them, we may or may not use them, make sure to state if you want your name posted with the photo or if you wish to remain "unknown".
I do not do speaking events.
I know a number of you are wondering why I haven't gotten around to investigating information you have sent me on one site or another, I will try to get to as many as I can but again, I am limited in how much walking I can do these days because of foot issues but I will try to get to as many requests as I can as I am able to.
You can email me with questions, at fendermail56@yahoo.com
If you need further information you can contact Mathew Marchon, a fellow adventurer and explorer of hidden places, he has been very helpful to me over the years and is very knowledgeable on the caves and abandoned trails in Acadia National Park, and has written two books on the subject, The Acadia You Haven't Seen Vol. 1 and 2, and recently he just put out a book titled "A Beginners Guide to Bushwhacking," and any time I have had any questions for him he has taken the time to respond - his website is at the link below.
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