MOUNT DESERT ISLANDER • November 13, 2020
The timed-entry reservation system for private vehicles at Acadia National Park will be used for the Cadillac Mountain Summit Road next summer but it won’t be in effect for the Ocean Drive section of the Park Loop Road as had been planned. Park officials and consultants spent two days last week analyzing the results of an 18-day test of the system last month. The pilot program did not go as well as hoped on Ocean Drive because of the absence of Island Explorer buses, which weren’t running because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lack of good cellphone service around the Sand Beach entrance station. The reservation system for Cadillac Mountain worked well. The park will continue vehicle reservations at that location for 2021.