BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 12, 2025
A spike in visits to a remote offshore section of Acadia National Park hasn’t sparked the same concerns about crowding and overtourism that have divided neighbors of the much more famous Mount Desert Island section of the park. The park owns about half of Isle au Haut, which is accessible by a 45-minute boat ride from Stonington. And that section of Acadia hasn’t been spared from the overall growing popularity of park, which has seen a roughly 20 percent increase in total annual visits since the COVID pandemic, from about 3.3 million visits each year to now nearly 4 million.