{"id":6698,"date":"2018-01-10T22:48:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T03:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniferbooher.com\/wp-walking\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2018-01-10T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T03:49:11","slug":"coast-walk-19-addendum-asticou-stream-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jenniferbooher.com\/wp-walking\/coast-walk-19-addendum-asticou-stream-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Walk 19 addendum – Asticou Stream Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know, I know, it’s a little unorthodox to have an addendum to Coast Walk 19 when, technically, Coast Walk 19 hasn’t happened yet. Here on the blog, I’m still stuck a mile or two away trying to contact property owners along Roberts Point and Wheelwright Way so I can start Coast Walk 18. However, in real life, two of my interviewees mentioned the Asticou Stream Trail so on the morning of October 6, 2017, I checked it out.<\/p>\n

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The trail is also known as the Asticou Brook Path, and since the signpost has both names I’m going with the biggest sign)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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The path starts just across Peabody Drive from the Azalea Garden and winds down to the harbor through a little stream valley running along the edge of the Asticou Inn property.<\/p>\n

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It’s part of the Land & Garden Preserve<\/a>, but is maintained by the Northeast Harbor Village Improvement Society.<\/p>\n

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It’s not a long trail – I think if you walked straight through you’d reach the shore in 10 minutes. I, of course, rarely manage to walk straight through anywhere. There’s too much to look at:<\/p>\n

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Slime mold or puffballs? I’m still trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n

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The only thing I’ve found about its history is a note on the Memorials of Acadia National Park<\/em> blog<\/a>: “Gordon Falt [was] a 20-year Path Committee chairman. His memorial, which is alongside the wooden steps descending east from Main Street via Old Firehouse Lane to the harbor’s parking lot, states: Gordon H. Falt, Devoted Designer of the Beauty of this Village and Staunch Sustainer of its Trails. 1900-1981<\/em>. Among the trails he built was the Asticou Brook Trail.” So it must have been built sometime before 1981. Tell me more if you know the trail’s history!<\/p>\n

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\"\"The day I visited, a seal was lolling around out near the Thuya Landing. Too far away, but I took a photo anyway to prove I saw her:<\/p>\n

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A loon was flying back and forth, very busy about something.<\/p>\n

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The view back toward the stream mouth:<\/p>\n

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You can walk along the shore a little way, and then the path continues back up through the meadow to meet Route 198\/Harborside Road.<\/p>\n

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WORKS CITED<\/p>\n

Lenahan, Donald. “Northeast Harbor’s Schoolhouse Ledge – a Place for a Peaceful Hike,” Memorials of Acadia National Park, September 5, 2012. acadiamemorials.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/northeast-harbors-schoolhouse-ledge.html<\/a> \u00a0Date accessed: January 10, 2017.<\/p>\n

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