Friends of Acadia

Friends of Acadia makes grants from its Acadia Trails Forever project fund to the ANP trails program to maintain the park's 153 miles of trails. Some of the highlights from the 2023 season included rehabilitation or re-routing sections of the Cadillac North Ridge Trail, Beech Mountain Loop, Jordan Pond House Trail, Great Meadow Loop, and Amphitheater Trail.

Additionally, Friends of Acadia contributes to a variety of community outreach events such as Take Pride in Acadia, National Trails Day, and Earth Day Roadside Clean-up. In partnership with Acadia National Park, Friends implements and contributes to other programs including the Summit Stewards, the Wild Garden of Acadia, the Acadia Winter Trails Association, invasive plant eradication, Acadia Quest, the peregrine falcon and hawk watch program, Acadia Teacher Fellows Program, water quality monitoring and a volunteer program that typically contributes over 5,000 hours of time per year to help maintain Acadia's trails and carriage roads.

The Carriage Road maintenance grants help to make possible the salaries of several Acadia National Park workers who perform regular maintenance of the park's 44 miles of historic carriage roads. In 2023, some of the highlights included ditch maintenance and streambank restoration in the Seven Sisters area of the carriage roads, surface excavation and rehabilitation at the Waterfall Bridge, and installation of seven visitor use counters in the carriage road system.