ASSOCIATED PRESS • October 23, 2026
There is one sign the other 4 million-plus tourists who visit Acadia National Park annually can no longer see at the summit of Cadillac Mountain: a marker explaining the mountain’s sacred significance to the Wabanaki people in the region. “Today, visitors from everywhere find meaning on the mountain,” it said. It was among 30 markers removed from Acadia under a Trump administration campaign to strip national parks of materials deemed disparaging to American history. When park staff took down the summit sign at the orders of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, they also unraveled some of the trust that took decades to build between Acadia National Park and the Wabanaki people. Other signs removed from Cadillac’s summit addressed issues of climate change.