Acadia National Park is open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. A number of park roads close during the winter including Park Loop Road, Cadillac Mountain Road, and all of the unpaved roads. Most facilities close in the winter as well.

All park visitors are required to pay an entrance fee upon entry May–October. Passes are non-transferable. Credit cards are accepted at all fee collection areas.

Private Vehicle: $30

Valid for seven days

Admits private, non-commercial vehicle (15 passenger capacity or less) and all occupants. If the vehicle pass is purchased, no other pass is necessary.

Motorcycle: $25

Valid for seven days
Admits one or two passengers on a private, non-commercial motorcycle.

Per Person: $15

Valid for seven days
Admits one individual with no car (bicyclist, hiker, pedestrian). Youth 15 and under are admitted free of charge.

The following locations issue all park passes

• Hulls Cove Visitor Center

• Sand Beach Entrance Station

• Thompson Island Information Center

• Bar Harbor Village Green

• Blackwoods Campground

• Schoodic Woods Campground

• Seawall Campground

Combine great scenery and history with great savings and visit a national park for free on one of four fee free days in 2018. The four entrance fee-free days for 2018 will be:

• January 15 -Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

• April 21 -First day of National Park Week

• September 22 -National Public Lands Day

• November 11 -Veterans Day

Organized groups such as scouts, rotary clubs, youth groups, churches, reunions, etc. that do not qualify for an Educational Fee Waiver are charged as follows.

• $30 per vehicle: Non-commercial vehicles with 15 or less capacity.

• $15 per person: Non-commercial vehicles with 16 or greater capacity. Youth 15 and under are admitted free of charge.

Please refer to Acadia National Park’s page on Educational Fee Waivers for more information.

A commercial tour is defined as consisting of one or more persons traveling on an itinerary that has been packaged, priced, or sold for leisure or recreational purposes by an organization that realizes financial gain through the provisions of the service. A commercial use authorization is required for all tours entering the park.

For more information, visit Acadia National Park’s Do Business With Us page.

The fees you pay when visiting Acadia make a difference. Under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, Acadia keeps 80 percent of all fees collected and uses that money to improve visitor services and fund critical deferred maintenance projects in the park such as:

• Maintain and rehabilitate park carriage roads and hiking trails

• Maintain and repair campgrounds, buildings, and picnic areas

• Maintain and repair paved roads and parking areas

• Improve park accessibility for visitors with disabilities

• Operate and maintain the Island Explorer bus service

• Provide lifeguards at Sand Beach and Echo Lake Beach

• Provide unique interpretive programs

• Support and maintain museum exhibits

A good place to start your exploration of Acadia National Park, as its name implies, is the information center for visitors, located along Route 3 outside the island village of Hulls Cove, about eight miles beyond the Thompson Island bridge. Park your vehicle in one of the 200 available spaces, climb the 52 stairs, and head on in.

The visitor center includes staff available to answer questions, supplies of maps and copies of the park newspaper called the Beaver Log, a well-stocked bookstore, a large relief map of Mount Desert Island that helps orient visitors, a theater that shows a 15-minute video, The Gift of Acadia, on the hour and half-hour during the day, and (of course) all-important restrooms.

25 Visitor Center Road
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
207.288.3338

April 15 to June 30: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, daily
July 1 to September 3: 8 am to 6 pm, daily
September 4 to October 31: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, daily

Bar Harbor, ME 04609
207.288.3338

May 5 to June 17: 9 am to 5 pm, weekends
June 23 to October 8: 9 am to 5 pm, daily

19 Firefly Lane
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
207.288.3338

May 16 to October 12: 8 am to 5 pm

1319 Bar Harbor Road
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
207.288.3338

May 16 to October 12: 8:30 am to 5 pm

Main Street
Islesford, ME 04646
207.288.3338 or 207.244.9224

June 23 to September 2: 11 am to 4 pm, daily
September 3 to September 30: Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 3 pm; Sunday, 12 to 4 pm

9 Attterbury Circle
Winter Harbor, ME 04693
207.288.1310

Memorial Day – Columbus Day
Exhibits are open 10 am to 4 pm, daily
Business hours: 8 am to 5 pm, weekdays

Columbus Day – Memorial Day
Exhibits are open 10 am to 4 pm, weekdays
Business hours: 8 am to 4 pm, weekdays
Closed weekends

2 Cottage Street
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
207.288.3338

From November 1 to mid-April, the park shares winter visitor operations with the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce, at the corner of Cottage and Main Streets, in downtown Bar Harbor.

• Hours are 8 am to 4 pm daily

• Telephone operations will continue at (207) 288-3338. The mailing address will continue to be Acadia National Park, PO Box 177, Bar Harbor, ME 04609.