Acadia traffic down only 10 percent in August as tourism picked up from a slow spring

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 15, 2020

Acadia National Park got busier as the summer rolled along, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, getting only 10 percent less traffic in August than it did in the same month last year. It’s another data point showing that a Maine tourist season that got off to a slow start in the spring, when the state was largely shut down to out-of-state visitors, picked up speed as the summer continued. Acadia is estimated to have had roughly 682,000 visits in August.