Gorham Mountain and the Bates plaque

A bronze plaque for the man who invented the Acadia trail.

Waldron Bates chaired the Bar Harbor path committee from 1900 to 1909 and gave the island its stone stairways, iron rungs, and the Bates cairn. A 1910 bronze by William Ordway Partridge on the Gorham ridge calls him Pathmaker.