ABANDONED TRAILS OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: CADILLAC MOUNTAIN GOVERNMENT INSTALLATION

As you driving along the Cadillac Summit Road, and approaching the summit, you come to a dirt road on the right with a strange post with the large numbers, 11, 12, 13 on the post, located a locked gate. If you walk a short ways up that dirt road, the one to the left, (the one to the right is a dead end) you come to a government instillation with antenna towers and various buildings located in a well fenced in and locked area. The reason I even stumbled upon this location was because the Green Mountain Railway route passed close to this area. I did come across another find, but I will not post about it, as I am pretty certain the Park Service would not like it as it is not fenced in.

The map below shows the site as viewed from the sky;

In the photo above you see there are not one, but two roads behind the closed gate, the second road, marked narrow paved road, runs down through the woods a ways before suddenly ending, and where the road ends is a well worn path continuing onward down the mountain side and has the feel of being an old abandoned hiking trail, the further we followed it the ground seemed to get rougher - not sure where it led as we began losing out light. At one point an official trail does cross this road as well. the path at the end of the road is not part of that trail.

To the right of the old paved road is a shallow ravine filled with huge sections of granite, some had the tell tale cut marks on them.