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Island Explorer routes extended, no Quietside or Northeast Harbor service
ACADIA NAT’L PARK Because of recently relaxed COVID-19 rules on physical distancing, , and they will be covering more of the eastern side of Mount Desert Island.
But there will be no bus service to Southwest Harbor and Tremont, nor to Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor or Somesville in the town of Mount Desert.
Starting more than six months ago, Downeast Transportation, which operates the Island Explorer system, developed routes and schedules for 2021 to comply with the CDC requirements at the time. That resulted in eliminating several bus routes and shortening others.
Acadia campgrounds to open this spring
ACADIA NAT’L PARK After being closed all last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the park’s campgrounds are to be open this year, starting in May.
But the overall number of available campsites will be reduced “to allow us to spread campers out and to clean the restrooms more frequently,” said Deputy Superintendent Mike Madell.
“At Seawall, the campsites are really quite close together, so we might have only about 50 percent occupancy there,” he said. “But Schoodic Woods, the newest campground, was built in a way that there is inherently more distance between sites. So that’s probably going to be closer to full occupancy than to 50 percent.”