ABANDONED TRAILS OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: DUCK BROOK RAPIDS PATH

Here we go, another year and another find, this one we are calling the Duck Brook Rapids Path and for good reason, the shot path follows Duck Brook close to the water's edge. A dam use to be in here and you can see remains of it here and there. Even though the path is close to the water, there are a few places along the path where you can easily get right up beside the rapids, which was pretty cool. The path brings you below the towering triple arch bridge where it meets up with the bottom of the narrow stone stairway leading up the side of the bridge.

Locating the path is fairly easy, from Eagle Lake Road - route 233, turn onto the Duck Brook Road and follow it to where the cars park for the Duck Brook Bridge Carriage Roads, see alternative route below.
By the nearby small building there is a short driveway next to the building, and a dirt drive way which makes its way behind the building. From the short driveway on the right of the building, looking straight ahead, you will see a very large thick pine tree not far from the brook behind it, to the right of the pine tree is a worn path, also to the left of it is another path but not as worn, both lead to the main path which is very well worn.
A short section of path goes down into a dry gully and back up again onto the other side of the gully, from here forward you are very close to the brook. By the water look to the left upstream for signs of the old dam.

Alternative directions;
Due to the shut down of the park due to the virus, you can get here by bike from the Eagle Lake Road, but an alternative route is to follow West Street from the bottom of Main Street in Bar Harbor, cross Eden street, route 3 and continue straight up along West Street Extension, which will bring you to one of the entrances to Acadia National Park. The park is closed this year to cars, so park and walk into the park and not far you will come to the Duck Brook Road on the right, follow it to Duck Brook Bridge where the Carriage Roads begin. You will see the small building, follow directions above.

Now on our discovering of this path the rapids were really alive.