{"product_id":"map-of-bar-harbor-maine-by-usgs-1982-acadia-national-park-mount-desert-island","title":"Map of Bar Harbor, Maine by USGS, 1982 – Acadia National Park \u0026 Mount Desert Island","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1983 from 1982 mapping, the US Geological Survey’s “Bar Harbor” captures one of Maine’s most celebrated coastal landscapes with the precision and clarity of the modern American topographic tradition. At a 1:24,000 scale, it presents Bar Harbor and the eastern reaches of Mount Desert Island in intimate detail, balancing the inhabited resort town with the surrounding drama of sea, granite, forest, and island. Frenchman Bay dominates the composition, its blue waters setting off a finely contoured shoreline of coves, points, and offshore islands. The map belongs to an era just before further waves of tourism infrastructure reshaped parts of the region, preserving a vivid record of Bar Harbor’s relationship to Acadia National Park and the working maritime world around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe US Geological Survey had, by the late twentieth century, refined topographic mapping into an art of disciplined observation. On this sheet, contour lines move across the land like engraved fingerprints, revealing the steep rises, rounded summits, glacially carved valleys, and rocky peninsulas that give Mount Desert Island its unmistakable character. Color is used with quiet authority: land, water, roads, park boundaries, and built areas are differentiated without obscuring the terrain beneath. Routes 3 and 233 thread through the landscape, linking Bar Harbor with lakes, trailheads, and coastal settlements. This is cartography designed for use, yet it possesses an elegance born from exactness, transforming survey information into a remarkably readable portrait of place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBar Harbor itself appears not merely as a town, but as the social and geographic hinge of the map. Long renowned as a Gilded Age resort and summer colony, it occupies a privileged position between Frenchman Bay and the heights of Acadia. Nearby, Eden—an older name associated with the area’s municipal history—evokes the region’s nineteenth-century identity, when artists, rusticators, and wealthy vacationers helped establish Mount Desert Island’s national reputation. The coastline around Gully Point, the Porcupine Islands, and the harbor approaches shows why this place became both a maritime refuge and a scenic destination. Ferries, coves, islands, and sheltered waters suggest the constant interplay between mainland, island communities, and the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcadia National Park gives the map much of its grandeur. Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the eastern seaboard of the United States, rises in tight contours, a commanding presence above Bar Harbor and Frenchman Bay. Eagle Lake, Jordan Pond, Long Pond, and the surrounding uplands reveal the park’s glacial origins, where ice once shaped basins, polished ridges, and left behind a landscape of freshwater mirrors and granite summits. Trails and coastal paths trace human routes through this rugged terrain, hinting at generations of walkers drawn to views of ocean, island, and mountain compressed into a relatively small area. The map’s topography makes Acadia’s drama legible at a glance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond Bar Harbor, the sheet opens into a broader maritime world: Great Cranberry Island, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford, Sheep Porcupine Island, Blue Hill Bay, Sullivan Harbor, Winter Harbor, Seal Cove, Somes Sound, Bass Harbor, and Lamoine State Park all situate Mount Desert within a richly indented coastal network. Somes Sound, often described as a fjard, cuts deeply into the island, emphasizing the region’s unusual geological form. The juxtaposition of sheltered bays, exposed islands, mountain slopes, lakes, and forested parkland gives this map its enduring fascination. It is a measured survey, but also a compact portrait of Maine’s coast at its most iconic: rugged, navigable, historically layered, and profoundly shaped by the meeting of land and sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBar Harbor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcadia National Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrenchman Bay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMount Desert Island\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSullivan Harbor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGully Point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinter Harbor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLong Pond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEagle Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBass Harbor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomes Sound\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCadillac Mountain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSheep Porcupine Island\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreat Cranberry Island\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLittle Cranberry Island\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIslesford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlue Hill Bay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJordan Pond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeal Cove\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLamoine State Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoute 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoute 233\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarious hiking trails and coastal paths\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the US Geological Survey as a historical 1:24,000 topographical map of Bar Harbor, Maine, and the surrounding area.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDated 1982 and published with a 1983 imprint.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHighlights surrounding islands, maritime features, and the rugged coastal landscape of the Maine coast.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBar Harbor is noted for its proximity to Acadia National Park and its historical significance as a resort town.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses topographical contour lines to show elevation changes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmploys clear color differentiation between land and water to improve readability and terrain interpretation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows prominent elevations, waterways, and coastal features that illustrate the region’s distinctive geography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflects a point in time before later tourism and infrastructure developments significantly altered parts of Bar Harbor and the surrounding area.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/it\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/it\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/it\/pages\/map-personalisation\"\u003eSee personalised map examples\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. 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