BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 24, 2022
Visits to Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor are down compared with a year ago, but that is not necessarily a bad thing for the area that struggled to keep up with intense tourism last year. The 2021 tourism season will long be remembered in Bar Harbor for how extremely busy and unusual it was. Acadia got more than 4 millions visits — roughly half a million more than it ever had before — but that was without a single large cruise ship dropping anchor in Frenchman Bay. With more than 1 million total visits from January through June of this year, 2022 is still on pace to be the park’s second busiest year in its 107-year history.