Help with some planning!
Hi! I’m looking for any insight into planning my trip. I’ve scoured this subreddit but just am having a hard time piecing it all together and see how helpful and friendly this sub is. We’re staying at a campground (one the island explorer does stop at) from Saturday night - Tuesday morning, so two full days to do some hiking and we will have our car. We are early 30s and fit, love to hike and just want to see the best with least amount of crowds possible but also in a short amount of time. Going mid July.
Questions to help me plan:
- Cadillac mountain - we want to hike up it and see the sunrise. Would it be possible to do another hike after, let’s say after a little bit of a break at the top and what do you recommend? Especially since we will have our car for this one so will have to park. Thinking to do this Monday?
- beehive, bubbles, Jordon pond, sand beach…oh my- we want to do at least one these highly recommended hikes I’ve noted on this subreddit. Would it be possible to do one after Cadillac and if so which one do you recommended? Any of them hard that we should do on Sunday? And should we just take the shuttle there, or get up early and park?
—— subtext to this, could we do Jordon pond/bubbles after Cadillac sunrise? Or too much hiking?
Any other recommended hikes for the best Acadia experience?
- then one question about the shuttle - I see the last one from bar harbor to gateway center is 10pm. Is this accurate and how reliable is the shuttle this late on a Sunday or Monday? We have dinner planned and I wonder if this would be a good use of the shuttle to get to/from accommodation.
Open to all suggestions and advice. Thank you!