BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 22, 2020
Monthly visits to Acadia National Park more than doubled from June to July but still lagged well behind visit totals from 2019, a decline directly attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Park Service estimates it had 493,000 recreational visits last month, more than 260,000 fewer than the 756,000 visits it had in July 2019. Acadia had just over 200,000 visits this past June, less than half of the 490,000 visits it had in June 2019. So far in 2020 Acadia National Park has had an estimated 908,000 visits, compared to 1.58 million for the first seven months of 2019, for a 42 percent decline.