Acadia CompassMount Desert Island, Maine
Story tours

Walk the island one story at a time.

Each tour strings waypoints into a narrative with a map, timing, and a GPX file for your own app.

6 stops · 3.1 mi · half a day

The 1947 fire walk

Five days in October that ended an era.
5 stops · 5.5 mi · a full day

Dorr's island

The man who spent his fortune making a park.
4 stops · 4 mi · an afternoon

The quiet side at low tide

Granite ledges, tide pools, and a lighthouse at sunset.
17 stops · 11 mi · two days by bicycle or carriage road

Rockefeller's seventeen bridges

Granite arches built so horses would never meet a car.
6 stops · 6 mi · a day with driving

From Pesamkuk to Saint-Sauveur

Twelve thousand years of people, and one French summer.