Interesting Facts
17 stone bridges, streams, and cliffs
What is the number of stone bridges, streams, and cliffs that are featured in Acadia National Park?
A less term for a glacier tarn, usually small circular lake which forms when a glacier melts?
What is a bowl?
The man is known as the "father of Acadia National Park'. He got many local landowners to donate their property to create the Park.
Who is George B. Dorr
The 'official' treat of Maine! Yum :)
Whoopie Pie
The tallest mountain in Acadia National Park? This mountain is also the tallest mountain that lies on the Eastern Coast.
What is Cadillac Mountain
The only fjord on the Atlantic Coast and has depths of 200 feet.
What is Somes Sound?
The force that smoothed out the Cadillac Mountains and made bowls.
What are glaciers?
Native American peoples inhabited the land we now call Maine for 12,000 years.
Who were the four tribes—the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot—collectively known as the Wabanaki.
Maine's State Animal
Moose
What has a pointer rock sitting on top of a flat rock supported by 2-3 rocks on each side.
What is a Bates cairn. Named after Waldron Bates
The oldest metamorphic rock found in Acadia. Formed 500m yo from buried layers of sediment, pressure and heat.
What is Ellsworth Schist?
The part of the park that is connected to the mainland. Features diabase dikes and much older granite.
What is Schoodic Point?
The original or 2nd name of Acadia NP.
What is Sieur de Monts (1916) and later changed to Lafayette NP.
Maine's state berry
Blueberry
Who funded the 57 miles of carriage roads and 17 stone bridges.
Who is John D. Rockefeller Jr. Also, known for 'Rockefeller's Teeth' by the side of the road.
When volcanoes erupted and cooled.
How is Cadillac Granite formed?
The only part of the park that is only accessible at low tide.
What is Bar Island?
What is Down East?
What is reference to the coastline which goes to the east? Also a sailing term.
90% of our nation's supply of this comes from Maine
Lobster
Bar Harbor's original name
What is Eden?
A diabase dike
What are younger dark-colored fine grained igneous rocks that cut through older granite.
The large rock on top of the Bubbles, called Bubble Rock or any random rock.
What is a glacial erratic?
1947 is a significant year in the park and Maine history/
What is the great fire? It burnt a total of 17,188 acres and 10,000 in the park.
The other big park in Maine
Baxter