MOTOR ROAD DEVELOPMENT A) Jordan Pond/Eagle Lake (1923-27): Park Superintendent George Dorr originally planned this road in 1922 to open up the interior of the park to visitors and to protect HISTORIC AMERICAN RECORD against wildfire. When federal appropriations for the road fell through, John D. Frenchman Bay Rockefeller, Jr. agreed to fund the project. The Jordan Pond/Eagle Lake road connects Rt. 233 near Eagle Lake with Seal Harbor. SHEET B) Sieur de Monts (planned 1929, built 1940): Although not represented here, this F Bar Harbor section of the Park Loop motor road was the most controversial to construct (see Sieur de Monts Spring sheet). Originally designed to run alongside The Tarn, the final layout went around Champlain Mt., connecting Ocean Drive and the Kebo Mt. B MAINE section with the old park headquarters near downtown Bar Harbor (on SCHOODIC Ledgelawn Ave.). PENINSULA Varies Reveal 1" Crown Per Foot C) Ocean Drive (1929-58): Because much of its proposed route ran across Eagle The privately owned land, Ocean Drive took longer to complete than any other Lake Tarn 0 1 2 Miles F section of the Park Loop motor road. As Acadia obtained these properties, Granite Median (rumble strips) 0 2 3 more segments of Ocean Drive were added. The Ocean Path, a trail running along A Champlain Mt Kilometers lookout area - Paradise Hill the road's southern portion, was reconstructed during the Depression by workers scale 1/2" = 1'-0 from President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps (see Ocean Drive sheet). Jordan ME Rt.3 Pond D) Stanley Brook (1934-36): Rockefeller constructed the Stanley Brook motor road Somes C on his own land and then donated It to Acadia. In order to maintain the scenic Sound quality of both the brook and the narrow valley, as well as to alleviate local opposition to the road, Rockefeller hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to help design it. The final route crosses Stanley Brook six times on Otter Point small, unadomed bridges. (Extensively landscaped by Beatrix Farrand). Stanley Brook E E) Otter Point (1938-39): The 1932 decision, relocating the Otter Cliff Naval Radio Station to nearby Schoodic Peninsula made way for the extension of the Park Loop motor road through Otter Point. Rockefeller donated the land for the Otter Cove Causeway and confirmed the design with F. L. Olmsted Jr. A memorial to Seal Harbor HANCOCK COUNTY Allesandro Fabbri, commander of the radio station, marks the station's former Otter Creek Cove 0 7 2 location. Miles ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ROADS 8 BRIDGES 0 1 2 5 Bridge and Causeway F) Paradise Hill (1940-41): One of the last sections of the park motor road to Kilometers be completed, the Paradise Hill Road was built so that motorists entering the park from Rt. 3 could avoid Bar Harbor traffic. Although it was constructed by the E Bureau of Public Roads, the land for the road was donated by Rockefeller. To Bar Harbor Fabbri Memorial - planting BAR HARBOR VICINITY P PAT LANE harlen d. groe , 1995 BRIDGES RECORDING PROGRAM To Seal Harbor A D BY Stanley Brook Road Jordan Pond / Eagle Lake Road concept drawing -F.L. Olmsted Jr. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE : I : C Ocean Drive with Pulloff Parking Mountain Road DELINEATED BY ACADIA ROADS 8 never implemented