BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 1, 2025
Despite the lack of an agreement in Congress to fund federal operations past the end of September, Acadia National Park remained mostly open on Wednesday. The park’s visitor center in the Bar Harbor village of Hulls Cove was closed. But the Island Explorer bus system and local bicycle rental companies that transport customers and their bicycles into the park were coming and going from the parking lot as usual. The Park Loop Road was open. Rangers were manning the booth at the bottom of Cadillac Mountain’s Summit Road and were making sure visitors had required reservations before driving to the top. A couple who was leaving Acadia Wednesday morning to head back home to New York said it was a shame that the park’s operations would be affected at all by politics. “These parks are for everyone. People plan these trips in advance,”