ACADIA ON MY MIND BLOG • May 11, 2020
The pandemic has delayed openings at Acadia National Park and indefinitely postponed operation of shuttle buses, but leaders are forging ahead with plans for a trial run this fall of a parking reservation system for Cadillac Mountain and Ocean Drive, with people allowed to make online reservations in August. The dry run for parking at a reserved site at Cadillac and along Ocean Drive near the entrance to Sand Beach will be held in October. Reservations to park can be made well ahead of the test run, probably as early as Aug. 1 over the same web-based system currently used for reservations at National Park Service campgrounds. Acadia is also planning a reservation system to park at the north lot of Jordan Pond starting not before 2022.