Acadia National Park sets visitation record in 2017

By November 2017, the number of visitors to Acadia National Park was just under 3.5 million.

The Mount Desert Islander reported the number is a record that eclipses 2016’s record-setting number of 3.3 million for the entire year. 

The number is split between Acadia’s two sections: The Mount Desert Island section saw 2.91 million visitors, up 0.9% over the same period last year. The Schoodic section saw a 4.1% increase to 293,933 and visitation to Isle au Haut was up 1% to 8,781.

Acadia remains the eighth most-visited of the nation’s 59 full-fledged national parks, just behind Olympia in Washington state and slightly ahead of Grand Teton in Wyoming, the newspaper reported.