TRENTON—Decades of planning and persistence came to fruition last September as the doors opened to visitors at the newly completed Acadia Gateway Center. It reopens for the season on May 20.
Located along Route 3 in Trenton, this facility welcomes visitors to Downeast Maine and Acadia National Park. As an intermodal transportation center, it’s the perfect place to park your car, purchase your park pass, learn about places to visit, and hop on the Island Explorer bus.
The design of the visitor center and transit hub went through several revisions over the years to improve efficiency, lower construction costs, and incorporate new technologies. The project was funded primarily by the Federal Transit Administration with additional support from the National Park Service, Friends of Acadia, Efficiency Maine, and the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT).
There will be even more opportunities to hop on the bus with three routes beginning before Memorial Day, a first in the nearly 20 year history of the Island Explorer.
>>See the route schedules on Downeast Transportation’s website
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