Acadia CompassMount Desert Island, Maine
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Homans Path

A stone staircase that vanished from the maps for sixty years.

moderate · 0.3 mi Few people Island Explorer: Sieur de Monts Position approximate

Dorr and path superintendent Andrew Liscomb built this stair path in 1915 and 1916, naming it for Eliza Homans, who gave the Beehive and the Bowl to the park. Dropped from maps in the 1940s, it was rediscovered and reopened in 2003, damaged by an earthquake in 2006, and reopened again in 2007.

EraPark founding
Seasonyear round
Coordinates44.36, -68.2085
Source of positionEST, estimated
Directions
Sources: NPS Homans Path.