The West Side
West of Somes Sound the island is quieter: Beech Mountain and Canada Cliffs, Echo Lake, the Lurvey Spring road, Acadia and St. Sauveur, the old farms and logging roads of Western Mountain and Seal Cove Road, and the shore at Seawall and Ship Harbor. Stonework from old footbridges still spans the brooks. The Southwest Harbor village society kept these paths in the years before the park.
Source: NPS: A Guide to the History of Acadia’s Hiking Trails
Areas
Each area gathers the tracks and waypoints from one of the field folders. Listed A–Z; open any area straight into the Atlas.
The West Side at a glance
Lost trails in rust, old roads in ochre, today’s park trails in green — over the 1942 sheet.
The West Side in 1915
The Southwest Harbor society listed 39 trails in the 1915 Path Guide, grouped around Freeman Ridge, Great Pond, Western Mountain, Beech Mountain, Flying Mountain and Dog and Robinson Mountains. Many of these names no longer appear on park maps.
Every track
Listed A–Z by name. Sort by any column; click a name to open it in the Atlas.
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Lengths are as recorded by GPS and simplified for display; field tracks may include out-and-back segments.