Acadia National Park

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Blackwoods Campground -Acadia National Park - Bar Harbor, Maine - Sunday, September 27 - Oct 1

Sunday – Thursday – September 27- Oct 1 – Blackwoods Campground – Acadia National Park.   If you don’t have reservations for Blackwoods it is hard to get in with an RV.  They only have about 40 RV sites but plenty of tent sites.  Actually an RV 25feet and under could fit into many of the tent sites but in the last ten years they are not doing that. 

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Blackwoods is near the parkway and Bar Harbor.  There are hikes, walks, ranger talks out of the campground.  The bathrooms and many of the sites have been updated in the last five years but still no showers but showers can be found outside the park entrance for a fee open 24 hours. 

This campground is still one of our favorites.  The trees and the sound of the waves on the rocks at night lull you to sleep.  There is a short walk down to the cliffs and park road which is beautiful. 

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One can ride bikes through the campground and take them on the carriage roads.  LLBean provides free shuttles from the campground to the parkway, Jordan’s Pond, Bar Harbor and will drop you off even with your bikes to hikes and walks around the National Park if the bus is going that way. 

Rangers are nice but don’t take the time with you as the Seawall Rangers do because they are so busy.  Blackwoods is open all year with limited services.  Bar Harbor is expanding with more restaurants especially since now all these cruise ships are in the harbor.  One day there were three ships in and one of them was the maiden voyage of the new Queen Victoria from England.  Interesting people from the ships and so many campers traveling from all over the country staying in the campground.

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   We really enjoyed our trip to Acadia but as George said it is not the same without the kids.  We hiked, biked and shopped and used the shuttles all the time.  Mom bought a beautiful painting.  We left Acadia and decided not to stay in Camden but head back to LLBean in Freeport to pick up mom’s new bike.  The weather forecast was for rain on Sat and Sunday so we felt it would be better to drive home in the sun on Friday plus Justine has missed us and we have missed her dog Ellis!  Ha  

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Good trip with great weather for the fall – we had warm days and only had to turn the heat on about three days just to get the chill out of the air.  Had some rain at night but the days were warm, sunny and very nice.