ABANDONED TRAILS OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: ABANDONED ENTRANCE INTO ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

Today visitors to Bar Harbor can easily reach one of the major entrances into Acadia National Park by turning left at the end of Main Street and driving up West Street, crossing Eden Street and continuing up West Street Ext. right into the park, but that was not always the case. Before West Street Ext. was constructed, the main entrance into Acadia National Park would of been more complicated, You would have to drive out onto Eden Street, turn up onto Highbrook Road, drive past How's Park, turn onto Champlain Road and finally arrive at a four way intersection. Directly ahead was the entrance into the park, which passed through a short section of forest before coming to a right hand turn, where todays Duck Brook Road is today, the section closed to cars. That curve or corner was well known as Reservoir Corner, because just a short ways down the road, up on the hill side, sat the Bar Harbor Water Company water reservoir, whose huge foundation and walls still stand today.
At the intersection of Champlain and Highbrook Roads there is a stop sign, directly across from Champlain Road there is usually a large storage container or dumpster, behind the storage container is a worn path that follows the edge of the woods, not far along the path turns into a road, and at different areas of the road you can still see the old pavement.
If your looking for the easiest way to locate this section of abandoned road, drive up West Street Ext. into the park, just ahead on the right is the blocked off end of the Duck Brook Road, park there. Walk along the road, not far, following the large granite stones along the right side of the road until they end, the abandoned section of road can now be seen. It is a short walk and easy to follow.
Over toward one corner of the woods, shown on the map, is the remains of an old structure.