Acadia National Park Self-Guided Driving Tour from Cadillac

The audio stories play on their own based on your location. You can start anytime and pause anywhere. Most stops along the tour have animated videos allowing you to visualize what you cannot see, such as snapshots from different centuries or interior rooms.While you drive, you’ll unearth the geological history that made these mountains possible, full of shifting plates, devastating volcanoes and earthquakes. But that’s not all! You’ll also get glacial history going back thirty thousand years.Next, you’ll get to travel back in time to the short-lived Green Mountain Cog Railway, once a major attraction on this mountain.Your journey will take you along Park Loop Road, as you revisit a devastating history of fires and powerful regrowth in addition, you’ll hear why the foliage is truly so rich, rooted in temperature changes and a myriad of pigments.Up next, you’ll pass one of the 250 beaver ponds and learn more about these fascinating creatures. Then, dig deeper into Acadia’s wildlife with a story about the extinction and reintroduction of the peregrine falcon.After snapping some photos at the Schooner Head Overlook, you’ll return to 1604, when Europeans first arrived in the areaThen, hear about how a radio tycoon built one of the most important and efficient radio stations in the world, which the Navy used in WWII.As you roll along, you’ll find out about the Wabanaki tribes and how they survived. Hunting and berry gathering certainly sound fun, but their lives depended upon it!You’ll then uncover the Rockefeller connections to the area, including how the land, roads, and bridges are a result of their efforts. On top of that, you’ll hear about their quirks, like John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s desire to bring back a past full of carriages!