Hiking Around Witch Hole Pond in Acadia National Park
Witch Hole Pond in Acadia National Park is a nice relaxing hike with some sweet views of the surrounding National Park!
Will the Acadia footage ever end?! Ok, I suppose at some point it will, but we did try to film everything possible while traveling around this beautiful National Park!
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Link to map all trails at Acadia (NPS.gov) –> Acadia National Park Trail Maps <–
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SMOOTH GRAVEL CARRIAGE ROADS
As I may or may not have said in previous posts, one of the great things about Acadia is that it is very accommodating. Accommodating particularly in the different types of hiking trails it offers and modes of transportation it offers all throughout its beautiful grounds…and waters.
Introducing, the carriage roads. On this adventure we will take you around Witch Hole Pond and surrounding area via one of the MANY carriage roads located throughout Acadia National Park. There are about 40 miles of carriage roads alone throughout the park and this adventure only goes on about 4 of them. Regardless of the distance, we really enjoyed this hike and we think you just might as well!
BEAUTIFUL PONDS
The largest pond along this path is Witch Hole Pond. Not too long after you get started down the trail (we started at Hulls Cove Visitor Center) you will come across Witch Hole Pond. It is absolutely beautiful with some wooded terrain and some mountains off into the distance surrounding the pond.
We decided to head to the right once we got to the split and figured out very quickly, there is more than one pond along this path. The following ponds are quite a bit smaller than Witch Hole Pond, but they offer just as beautiful scenery.
One pond was very interesting having what appeared to be a bunch of dead trees within it. We weren’t sure if a fire took place in this area, or what caused all these trees to lose their vegetation.
BRING BUG SPRAY
I highly recommend bringing bug spray as the mosquitoes were treating us like an all inclusive buffet picking away at any spot of bare skin they could find. (We forgot the bug spray as I mentioned in our video at the top of the post haha).
Along this very well marked trail, besides the occasional pond, you also come across a really sweet bridge. (Hop on the bridge as you can see some pretty awesome views down at the creek below and off into the distance).
If you peer between the trees on parts of the hike you can also see islands and mountains off in the distance as well. Check out some of Deanna’s pictures above as some prime examples. 🙂
WILDLIFE
As we were hiking around we also got to see some neat wild life including a beaver and a frog filled pond. Like seriously, the ribbits were pretty intense. And as most of our other hikes at Acadia, we were especially happy with this one because it was dog friendly. It is always a pleasure to have the pups coming along with us on our adventure as we hate ever having to leave him behind.
CHECK OUT OTHER ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURES
Great Head Trail, Sand Beach, and Bar Island
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Adventure On!
