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| Keywords: cleffstone road cleffstoneroad bar harbor barharbor maine new england newengland mount desert island mountdesertisland acadia national park nationalpark national parks nationalparks brecken trail breckentrail great hill greathill back packing backpacking hiking lost trails losttrails abandoned trails abandonedtrails ghost trails ghosttrails phantom trails phantomtrails maps of acadia mapsofacadia fawn pond trail fawnpondtrail camping outdoor text The old abandoned Bracken Trail is not the easiest to find and perhaps one of the harder ghost trails in Acadia national park to follow, but it can be done. It is one of several trails on Great Hill that the Park Service abandoned following the great fire of 47. Sections are well worn, sections are marked by branches or rock piles, and sections are very over grown with thick brush. The trail ends on the Duck Brook Bridge road, but in its day it continued on and connected to the Fawn Pond trail, yet another trail the Park Service abandoned. From time to time someone will ask me if it is legal to hike these abandoned trails. Yes, it is legal, though the Park Service does try and discourage this by attempting to conceal the start of these abandoned trails by laying tree branches across the start of these trails. If you were to look at very old maps of Bar Harbor, you would see that the Bracken Trail actually began on the corner of the Cleffstone Road. The old abandoned Bracken Trail is not the easiest to find and perhaps one of the harder ghost trails in Acadia national park to follow, but it can be done. It is one of several trails on Great Hill that the Park Service abandoned following the great fire of 47. Sections are well worn, sections are marked by branches or rock piles, and sections are very over grown with thick brush. The trail ends on the Duck Brook Bridge road, but in its day it continued on and connected to the Fawn Pond trail, yet another trail the Park Service abandoned. From time to time someone will ask me if it is legal to hike these abandoned trails. Yes, it is legal, though the Park Service does try and discourage this by attempting to conceal the start of these abandoned trails by laying tree branches across the start of these trails. If you were to look at very old maps of Bar Harbor, you would see that the Bracken Trail actually began on the corner of the Cleffstone Road. | ||||
