The Park Loop Road: A Guide to Acadia National Park's Scenic Byway

From the steep granite headlands with their powerful displays of thunderous surf, to the rounded mountaintops rising above fragrant balsam forest, Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park offer a remarkable diversity of natural and human history. Acadia's twenty-one-mile Park Loop Road was designed in the 1930s by noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead Jr. to "lead one through a series of visual experiences." This book guides the visitor, through the unparalleled scenic beauty, dramatic geology, and historic importance of the Loop Road.