MarknRobin Making Memories: Acadia National Park ~ Schoodic Point

From Robin: I had a post all written about our day at Schoodic Point, but the ipad ate it 😩 So I told Mark it was his turn to write a post. . . This one is mostly from him with a little input from me. He mentions "the old people's pass". Since he is now 62 he was able to purchase a Lifetime National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass for $10 which we can use to enter any National Park in the U.S. The regular ANNUAL National Parks Pass is $80. Besides grandchildren, it may be the only other advantage to getting old:)

Today (September 28th) we drove to the Schoodic Peninsula where another part of Acadia National Park lies. When we arrived at the Schoodic Point Information building, I told them I had the old people's pass and the ranger said that with the old people's pass (and the seasonal discount) we could camp at Schoodic Woods Campground for $15 and that included electricity! Now that's a good deal! Before exploring the park with our truck camper, we took the shuttle bus around the park to get an idea of what we would be seeing. The only other couple on the bus was from Lansing, MI. No RV's or vehicles pulling trailers were allowed on the park road, but they let us go with our truck camper because we can fit into a regular parking spot. Our first stop was the Frazier Point picnic area with nice views of the water.

A little further on we pulled into an overlook with views of the lighthouse on Mark Island.

We then drove to the rocky coastline of Schoodic Point. It was very cold and windy, but a lot of people were sitting in the sun in the shelter of the rocks.

After Schoodic Point we stopped at Blueberry Hill to hike up to Schoodic Head. We did a loop of three trails (Alder, Schoodic Head, and Antler) that would bring us back around to Blueberry Hill where we were parked. Alder Trail was an easy, mostly level path, but Schoodic Head Trail and Anvil Trail were both steep and rocky, poorly marked paths through the woods. We met a couple who had given up and turned around part way. They said the trail was too hard to follow and they were afraid of getting lost. We plowed on ahead, but we did lose the trail a couple of times. When we got to the Schoodic Head Lookout, there was no one else there except for a couple from Switzerland and we didn't see anyone else the whole way back down to the truck. At one point we were lost for awhile and getting a little nervous, but Robin found the way out. We think this hike was the most difficult one of our trip so far. We were glad to see our truck at the end of the trail!