Isle au Haut District, Acadia National Park, Knox County, ME

"Isle au Haut lies about 30 miles southwest of Bar Harbor, Maine and seven miles south of Stonington, Maine, on the southeastern edge of Penobscot Bay. The 5,800-acre island is approximately seven miles long and two miles wide, and the National Park Service (NPS) manages about half of it (2,900 acres) as part of Acadia National Park.... Visitors and residents access the island from Stonington via a private, passenger-only ferry service."Park facilities include a pier and a small backcountry campground with five lean-tos at Duck Harbor, a ranger station and a fire cache building near town, a gravel road that is part of loop road around the island, a fire road/trail (Western Head Road) to the southern part of the island, and nineteen miles of hiking trails. Much of the park’s rugged and steep terrain is covered in forests of spruce, fir, and pine, but the dense canopy opens around granite outcrops, meadows, and wetlands. Obscured amongst the woodlands are old stone walls, cellar holes, and apple trees associated with former homesteads established in the 1800s, as well as an old community cemetery. There is also a small log cabin that stands alongside a picturesque stream, a reminder of summer resident Ernest Bowditch’s quest to preserve the island’s undeveloped scenery. In 1944 the Bowditch family donated their lands to the federal government to be managed by the National Park Service."