The Guide's Guide to Acadia National Park was designed to provide accurate information about Acadia National Park to group leaders, educators, bus drivers, tour operators, employees working with park visitors in the service or recreation industry, and concession supervisors. It contains a great deal of information about park facilities, natural and cultural resources, and more.

You may download the Guide's Guide by section/chapter in a number of smaller PDF files (below). Note: To print sections of the guide, you may wish to choose "fit to paper" or "shrink large pages" in Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader so that no text is deleted from the page margins.

Cover (pdf - 281kb)
Contents (pdf - 273kb)
Acknowledgements (pdf - 261kb)
Foreword (pdf - 279kb)

Section One - Beginning Your Visit (Index - pdf - 626kb)

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Acadia and the Guide's Guide (pdf - 304kb)
Chapter 2 - Getting Started (pdf - 1.4mb)
Chapter 3 - Important Park Information (pdf - 72kb)

Section Two - Park Sites (Index - pdf - 1.1mb)

Chapters 4-6 - Visitor Center to Sieur de Monts Spring (pdf - 574kb)
Chapters 7-8 - Sieur de Monts Spring to Jordan Pond (pdf - 674kb)
Chapters 9-10 - Jordan Pond to Cadillac Mountain (pdf - 446kb)
Chapters 11-13 - Sites on SR 233 and SR 198, Islesford Historical Museum, Acadia's West Side (pdf - 628kb)

Section Three - Fact Sheets (Index - pdf - 270kb)

Chapter 14 - Wildlife (pdf - 631kb)
Chapter 15 - Plants (pdf - 697kb)
Chapter 16 - Land Formations (pdf - 783kb)
Chapter 17 - Intertidal Zone (pdf - 514kb)
Chapter 18 - Resource Management (pdf - 712kb)
Chapter 19 - Cultural History (pdf - 817kb)

Section Four - Recreation (pdf - 173kb)

Section Five - Educational Groups (pdf - 520kb)

Appendix (Index - pdf - 45kb)

Appendix A - General Information (pdf - 83kb)
Appendix B - Wildlife (pdf - 110kb)
Appendix C - Plants (pdf - 81kb)
Appendix D - Land (pdf - 79kb)
Appendix E - History (pdf - 85kb)
Appendix F - Other Features in and around Acadia National Park (pdf - 60kb)
Appendix G - Other Park Areas (pdf - 93kb)
Appendix H - Interpretive Trail Guides (pdf - 86kb)
Appendix I - Accessibility Guide (pdf - 85kb)

Alphabetical Index (pdf - 297kb)