MAINE PUBLIC • February 7, 2022
Officials at Acadia National Park say the new vehicle reservation system reduced traffic and helped prevent overcrowding in the parking lots last year, when a record 4 million people visited the park. Park management assistant John Kelly says that system will stay in place for 2022. "We will essentially run it the same way. We found that it was successful. It did what it was supposed to do," John Kelly, a park management assistant, told the Acadia National Park Advisory Commission at a virtual public meeting Monday. "It was the only place we could guarantee that you would have a parking space or an easy time finding a parking space in the park."