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Braille Translations of Park Publications

Braille translations of the park's souvenir Unigrid brochure and Essential Acadia messages are available at these locations –

• Hulls Cove Visitor Center, information desk (May through October)
• Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce, winter information center (November through April)
• Sieur de Monts Nature Center
• Rockefeller Welcome Center at Schoodic Institute
• Jordan Pond House, information desk

Essential Acadia

• Download a Braille Ready Format (BRF) (32cpl25lpp) translation of our Essential Acadia messages.

 

Park Brochure

Visit a separate page for the Park Brochure for complete information about how you can access print, braille, audio description, and text-only versions of Acadia National Park's souvenir park brochure.

• Download a Braille Ready Format (BRF) translation
• Download a plain text version, 2021 (Word)

Audio described versions of the brochure can be accessed four ways –

• Download the UniDescription app which includes all NPS park brochures that have been audio described through a prolific partnership project with the University of Hawaii. The app is free and available on the iOS platform and Android platform.

• Access the Acadia brochure content on the UniDescription website with your preferred browser.

• Download a zip folder of all 28 computer-generated voice recordings to play on your preferred mp3 player.
  • CLICK HERE to download zip folder (32 MB)

• Listen to each of the 28 recordings in a sequence of embedded audio players on the Park Brochure page. Click "transcript" to read the text for that partcular segment.

• An unabridged live text version of all the audio descriptions is also provided at the bottom of the Park Brochure page for use with screen reader technology.

 

Visitors discuss two vertical orientation panels on the summit of Cadillac Mountain.

Audio Description Tour of Acadia Waysides

Most of Acadia's interpretive waysides and orientation panels are presented by geographic area in these tours and on a map in the NPS app. Recorded audio descriptions and transcripts are provided for each wayside. Links are also provided to view and download production images of each panel from NPGallery.

• East side of Mount Desert Island
• Cadillac Summit Road
• Sieur de Monts Spring
• Jordan Pond and Wildwood Stables
• West side of Mount Desert Island
• Schoodic Peninsula