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Biking around Acadia

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Last week, Josh, his brother, Matt and I drove up to Acadia National Park to bike around. I had been to Acadia before two years ago and loved it so I was excited to go again. A cool thing to know about Acadia is that most of the park is not accessible by car. The major highlights of the park like Thunder Hole and the top of Cadillac Mountain are, but the Carriage Trail includes many trails around lakes and along the coast that are only for biking, hiking or horseback. We were able to go along two of these trails during our 4 hour bike rental from Bar Harbor Bicycle Shop.


The first trail we took was around Witch Hunt pond which you can see behind super strong Josh and Matt in the picture above. It looks like a great place to find moose early or late in the day!


Even though we were riding around in the middle of the afternoon, it wasn't very hot out at all! The Georgia girl in me was so surprised that I wasn't dripping sweat outside in July but we had delightful weather and delightful temperatures all afternoon!


I forgot to ninja kick in the above picture like Matt did...

Here's a view of the town of the ocean from the trail.


I guess I was stopping to take pictures too much so Matt decided to climb a tree while he waited...


Here are some shots that I took with my phone while riding down a hill. I couldn't see the shots I was getting but I just pointed my camera towards the beautiful scenery and pushed the button several times....just like all professional photographers I'm sure...



Josh and Matt were more concerned with speed than I was so this was my view for most of the day. If you look closely you can see Josh way up in the distance.


The second trail we explored was the loop around Eagle Lake. More gorgeous views that I could have sat and stared at for hours.


Josh and Matt wouldn't have let me do that though! Matt decided to add to the scenery with his perfect handstand.


Let's just say that I'm glad my camera has a fast shutter speed!

Eagle Lake was so pretty and I was impressed how fast we biked around the whole lake! That part of the trail was 6.6 miles long and it took us about an hour. Of course Josh and Matt would have gone faster without me probably and I would have gone slower and taken twice as many pictures without them!


On the way out, we parked our bikes and walked below a cool bridge that we rode over to start the Carriage Trail.


In the picture above, Josh and Matt are debating to see who can run up the stairs faster...

After we rode back to Bar Harbor, we used up the last of our bike rental time by riding to the coast and sitting for a while. 


To top off the already great day, we ate fresh lobster rolls and headed home!


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