What changed in Acadia

On 13 October we took the sunset cruise page’s link to the schooner Margaret Todd off the page, because its Viator listing was no longer on sale, and said we would link it again once it was. On 3 November it was on sale for 2027, from 14 May to 11 October, at $70 a person with free cancellation up to 24 hours before the sail, so the page carries its card again. The card says no date is on sale before 14 May 2027.

Our where-to-stay page has a new section on renting a whole cottage or house on Mount Desert Island for the week: who it suits, where the quiet side is, and Bar Harbor’s own rules. In the town of Bar Harbor, a whole house or apartment that is not its owner’s home rents for four nights at least, and the town caps how many of those it registers. Every short-term rental must be registered with the town each year, its registration number must appear in all its advertising, online listings included, and the town’s emergency information sheet, carrying that number, must be posted inside the front or main door. Southwest Harbor, Tremont and Mount Desert are separate towns, and Bar Harbor’s rules stop at its town line.

The page now links Vrbo’s list of cottages, cabins and apartments rented whole, all of them on Mount Desert Island itself and none on the mainland, beside the town lists at its top. Vrbo pays us a commission on a booking made through that link, and the block it sits in says so. Our disclosure and privacy pages now name Vrbo, and the privacy page says what a click on its link does: it passes through CJ, the affiliate network that runs Vrbo’s program, and Vrbo credits us if you book within seven days and ours was the last link that took you there.

The Park Service’s fees page now lists a third automated fee machine, outside the Acadia Gateway Center, beside the one at Hulls Cove and the one at the Schoodic Institute gatehouse. The winter, spring and entrance fee pages list it, and the entrance fee page now also names the Gateway Center among the park’s places to buy a pass in person, as the fees page does.

The foliage tracker’s 31 October read has 4 reports from Hancock County, 3 at peak and 1 still green, and its date held at 12 October (11 to 14 to aim for). The foliage page now says so.

On 1 November 2026 Island Time Ebike Rentals & Tours’ guided e-bike ride on the carriage roads could not be booked, for 2026 or 2027. Since 13 October its card had said the last date on sale was 5 November, with no 2027 dates on sale yet. It is now off the carriage roads page, and it comes back when it is on sale again.

The same company’s self-guided e-bike rental, handed over at Hulls Cove Visitor Center, is off the page too. On 1 November it had five dates on sale in November 2026, the first that day, and then none until three in October 2027: nothing in the spring or summer. Its card had said since 13 October that nothing before October 2027 was on sale. It comes back when its spring and summer 2027 dates are on sale, and until then the page links only the catalog of everything bookable around Bar Harbor.

Our fall, winter, hotel, itinerary and Jordan Pond Path pages gave the closing dates the Park Service’s hours table carried from August, and several moved. Sieur de Monts Nature Center closed after Monday 12 October, not 17 October: the park’s listing for it now reads “open 9 am to 5 pm June 14 through Oct 12, 2026”, and its table, updated on 31 October, agrees. The Jordan Pond House restaurant’s last day of service was Friday 23 October, not the 26th; its own hours page has said “Through October 23rd, 2026” since 13 October, and the park’s table now says the same. The Carriage Road Carry Out and the Cadillac Mountain Eco-Store closed after Sunday 25 October, not the 26th. The Thunder Hole gift shop stayed open later than we said, to Wednesday 28 October rather than 24 October.

Two dates now carry both sources, because they disagree. The Jordan Pond House gift store’s last day was 1 November by the Jordan Pond House’s own hours, and 2 November in the park’s table. The Acadia Gateway Center in Trenton closed after 12 October on the park’s listing for it, which said 14 October in September, while the table still gives 14 October. The winter page also now lists the Gateway Center’s fee machine in its answer on passes, as it already did in the body.

From 13 October to 1 November 2026 our where-to-stay page still described the Island Explorer as running. It called Trenton the cheaper base that works without driving into the park, by its free parking at the Acadia Gateway Center and the Route 1 bus, and said Route 7 serves Southwest Harbor about six times a day. The 2026 season ended on 12 October, and on 1 November the operator had posted no dates for 2027. The page now says that until the 2027 season every base is a driving base, and gives the 2026 routes as they ran.

It also gave Route 7 as 40 to 45 minutes from the Village Green to Southwest Harbor’s Main Street; the operator’s fall timetable gives 37 or 38 minutes on most trips. And it said the park’s campgrounds are not on a rolling window, which holds for 90 percent of their sites: the other 10 percent go on sale 14 days before each arrival date. The page now says so, and that the first 2027 release, every night in May, is at 10 a.m. Eastern on 1 December 2026.

At Your Service Tours’ three-hour private tour of Acadia, with the Cadillac summit reservation included, sold its 2026 season from $625 for a vehicle of up to five. Its 2027 season, 1 May to 31 October, is $750 a vehicle, and its first date on sale is 1 May 2027. The tour’s cards on the bus tour comparison and the Cadillac page now print $750.

Split five ways that is $150 a head, still under See Sight Tours’ $159 adult seat; split four ways it is now $187.50, over it. The comparison now points a party of five, not four, at the private tour.

The bus tour comparison and the Cadillac page now link At Your Service Tours’ three-hour private tour of Acadia, with the Cadillac summit reservation included, on FareHarbor. It is $625 for a minivan of up to six, the same on every date read from November 2026 to October 2027, and checkout adds a 7% fee: $668.75 in all. Earlier today the cards printed $750 for a vehicle of up to five, the tour’s 2027 price on Viator.

Split five ways, the fee included, that is $133.75 a head, under See Sight Tours’ $159 adult seat; split six ways it is $111.46. The comparison now points a party of five or six at the private tour. Non-US visitors aged 16 and over still owe the park’s $100 nonresident fee each on top.

On 27 October 2026 neither of Acadia National Park Tours’ narrated coach tours, the 2.5-hour tour and the 3.5-to-4-hour premium tour, could be booked, for 2026 or 2027. Since 21 October their cards had stood lower on the bus tour comparison and the cruise ship page, saying no 2027 date was on sale yet. They are now off both pages, and off the tours index, where the 2.5-hour coach was the featured trip. The comparison still describes them, and they come back when they are on sale again.

The two tours that do have 2027 dates on sale stay: See Sight Tours’ four-hour small-group tour, every day from April 2027, and At Your Service Tours’ private three-hour tour, every day from May. The comparison’s worked example of the $100 nonresident fee now uses See Sight’s $159 adult seat rather than the premium coach’s.

The hotel page’s column of the latest night each November hotel was selling on Booking.com was read again, one night at a time through November and into January. The Primrose was on sale to the night of Saturday 2 January, and again from 12 March 2027, Bar Harbor Manor to 28 November, the Little Fig Hotel and the Hearthside Inn to 29 November, the Bar Harbor Grand to 14 November, the Bluenose Inn to 28 November on Friday and Saturday nights only, and the Saltair Inn to 30 November. The first check, on 1 October, tried fewer nights, so its latest dates (11 December for the Primrose, 12 to 24 November for the rest) were earlier.

On 26 October the More Than Just Parks forecast called Acadia fading, with peak still at 12 October. The itinerary now plans for after the season: no Island Explorer, and none of its boats (the whale watch, the lobster boats, the sunset cruises, the Winter Harbor ferry) running, until 2027; no Cadillac reservation from 26 October to 30 November; and the Park Loop Road closed to cars from 1 December to 14 April except Ocean Drive and Jordan Pond Road. The Bass Harbor Head Light sunset table now runs from 1 November 2026 to 1 October 2027. The Margaret Todd’s 2027 booking calendar now lists a sunset sail on every evening from 14 May to 11 October 2027 but four, not two.

Since 23 September our Bar Harbor page listed Reel Pizza Cinerama as open daily from 4 to 9 p.m. with no closing date, and counted it among the places that stay open latest. Its own calendar lists films every evening to Friday 30 October and a free closing party on Saturday 31 October, with nothing after it, and its site says it is “about to start our annual R&R break.” The page now gives 31 October as its last night, and the Criterion and the two museums as what is left in the evening and on a wet day.

Our foliage page also said the Park Service’s alert for the Beech Mountain Loop Trail closure was headed as if it were a road. The alert, last changed on 30 September, is now headed “Eastern Section of Beech Mountain Loop Trail Closed for Repairs”, so that remark is gone. The closure itself is unchanged.

Pages that said Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. had “one sailing left” on Saturday 24 October now say the 2026 season is over; that Saturday was the last sailing on its booking calendar, with nothing listed after it. The lobster-boat and sunset-cruise pages now give the last Whale Watch Co. and Sail Acadia dates in the past tense (24 and 25 October). The Bar Harbor Historical Society museum closed after Saturday 24 October, which it called its last open day of the season, with a free Community Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The foliage page now carries More Than Just Parks’ 25 October read of the forecast: peak still 12 October, with 7 reports from Hancock County this week, 3 at peak and 3 patchy, moving its date 1 day later.

The 2026 Cadillac vehicle reservation season ends on Sunday 25 October. From 26 October the summit road needs no reservation, only a park pass, until it closes to cars for the winter on 1 December, or earlier if heavy snow forces it. The Cadillac page’s title and summary, and its step on our home page, now say so, and the page no longer offers tours as a way round a reservation nobody needs. The bus tour comparison now says a tour operator needs its own summit reservation in the reservation season only. The Park Service has not published the 2027 season yet.

Acadia National Park Tours’ two narrated coach tours sell their last 2026 seats on 22 and 25 October, and on 21 October neither had a date on sale in the year after. They are off the Cadillac, Island Explorer, vehicle-length and North Ridge pages. The bus tour comparison now leads with the two Cadillac tours that do have 2027 dates on sale, See Sight Tours’ small-group tour, every day from April, and At Your Service Tours’ private tour, from May; the cruise ship page leads with the See Sight tour. Both coaches stay lower on the comparison, and the narrated coach on the cruise ship page, each card saying no 2027 date is on sale yet. The premium coach’s listed price now starts at $109, not $99, and the narrated coach’s at $75, not $69; the comparison’s worked example for non-US visitors uses the new $109.

Our foliage page, revised on 18 October, still gave the state’s 7 October foliage report as its latest, with color change across most of Maine at moderate to high (50 to 70 percent). The state had published its 14 October report four days earlier. That report puts Zone 2, the Downeast zone that takes in Bar Harbor, at peak, with moderate leaf drop, up from high color change on 7 October; has the mid-coast and southern coast at peak too and most of northern and western Maine past peak; and says “This may be our final report of the season.” The state’s foliage map shows Zone 2 at peak, 70 to 100 percent. The page’s state-report section, its FAQ and its short answer, which also runs on our home page, now give the 14 October report.

Since 23 September the closing calendar on our foliage page has called Saturday 24 October the day of the last scheduled whale watch and nature cruise from Bar Harbor. That is Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co.’s last day, from 1 West Street, but not the town’s. Acadian Boat Tours, which sails from the Atlantic Oceanside Hotel at 119 Eden Street in Bar Harbor, lists its two-hour Sightseeing & Nature Cruise at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 25 October and at 1 p.m. every day from 26 to 31 October, and those sailings were already on its calendar when the page was written. The 24 October row now names Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co., and the 31 October row gives Acadian Boat Tours’ last nature cruise.

The privacy page listed what Viator’s report shows us for each booking: the date it was made, the date of the trip, which trip it was, its total and our commission. That list was short. The report also shows Viator’s reference number for the booking, how many travelers it is for and the country Viator records for the customer; its status, whether it has been paid and, if it was canceled, when and by whom; which of our pages it is credited to; and, for some bookings, the exact link it came through.

It shows no name, no email address and no payment details, and the page still says so. It now names everything the report records about the customer: the country Viator records for them and how many people are traveling.

The More Than Just Parks model that our foliage page quotes moved again: it now puts peak color in Acadia on 12 October (aim for 11 to 14 October), calls the park just past peak, and calls 19 to 25 October just past peak. On 10 October it said 9 October. The page’s forecast, short answer and FAQ say so, and the parts about the free bus (last day 12 October) and the 13 and 14 October ship days are now in the past tense. The home page’s “Pick your base” step no longer promises the free bus.

The privacy page said a click on one of our affiliate links takes you to Viator, and named Viator as the only booking company involved. Since 1 October 2026 this site has also carried links to places to stay and rental cars on Booking.com, and those go through CJ (Commission Junction), the affiliate network that runs Booking.com’s program. The page now says what such a click does: it passes through CJ, which records it, on its way to Booking.com, and Booking.com credits us only if you book in that same visit.

It also said that what comes back to us is never “your name, your email, your payment details or what you booked”. The last part was wrong. Viator’s reports show us, for each booking, the date it was made, the date of the trip, which trip it was, its total and our commission. They carry no name, no email and no payment details, and the page now says exactly that.

Its short version said the only personal information we ever hold is an email address you typed in yourself. That left out what comes with the address. MailerLite, which stores our list, records the IP address a signup and its confirmation came from, and when, as its proof that the person asked to join, and, like most mailing services, it can record which of our emails each subscriber opens and which links they click. A message sent to hello@theacadiaguide.com stays in our mailbox. The page now says all of this.

Four smaller corrections on the same page:

• SMTP2GO delivers our replies when you write to us. The page said it delivered the mailing list’s emails, which MailerLite sends.
• The list of services now also names Google, whose Gmail mailbox receives mail sent to hello@theacadiaguide.com, and CJ and Booking.com. With them the list is complete.
• The click counter’s description now lists all six things it records, including the time of the click, and says how the country is found: Cloudflare reads it from your connection, and the address itself is never stored.
• The page placed the shorter signup prompts only on guides; they appear on most guide and tour pages and some trail pages, and the page now says so.

The sunset cruise page linked to Viator’s listing for the schooner Margaret Todd’s sail. On 13 October, the day after the boat’s last scheduled sail of 2026, that listing was no longer on sale, and Downeast Windjammer’s own booking calendar showed no Margaret Todd sailings for the rest of the year or for 2027 yet. A link to a trip nobody can book does a reader no good, so it is gone, and the page now says the schooner’s 2026 season is over. We will link it again only once it is on sale.

Our carriage roads page and the guided tour’s card said Island Time Ebike Rentals & Tours runs its guided carriage-road ride on Gazelle e-bikes. Its listing and its own site both say Cannondale, and both now say so here.

The same check moved the review counts on every trip we list, and the Cadillac small-group tour’s rating up from 4.6 to 4.7. The narrated coach tours and the guided e-bike ride now say on their cards that nothing after late October or early November is on sale yet. Beside the guided ride, the self-guided e-bike rental’s card now says its last date on sale this year is also 5 November, with no 2027 dates before October on sale yet, and gives its length as five or six hours rather than six: its late-season rental is five.

Our fees page said the $70 Acadia annual pass runs 12 months from purchase. The Park Service’s fees page says it is “valid for 12 months from purchase month”, which can be a few weeks longer than a year from the day you buy it. It also says the pass is sold to US citizens and residents only, which the table now states on the pass’s own row. The page now uses the Park Service’s wording.

Our Bar Harbor page said paid parking started at noon on Sundays. The town’s parking page puts the paid season at 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, 1 May to 30 October. Its free Sunday mornings, until 12:30 p.m. on Mount Desert Street, lower Main Street, the Ball Field lot and the permit streets south of Mount Desert Street, are listed for cars with Maine plates. The page now says so.

The More Than Just Parks model that our foliage page quotes now puts peak color in Acadia on 9 October and says to aim for 8 to 11 October. On 4 October it said 2 October, and on 28 September it said 13 October. Its week-by-week table now calls 12 to 18 October just past peak. Maine’s own 7 October report puts color change across most of the state at moderate to high (50 to 70 percent) and says peak is closing in on the holiday weekend in central, coastal and southern Maine. The page’s dates, its short answer and its FAQ now say so.

On 23 September we reported a public health advisory against water contact at Sand Beach Lagoon. The advisory no longer appears in the Park Service’s alert feed, which lists current alerts only, so it has probably ended. We cannot see a lifting notice, so the Sand Beach page now says it was posted on 23 September, was gone from the feed by 4 October, and points to the park’s conditions page for any new one. The advisory was always for the lagoon, not for the beach.

We gave the downtown paid-parking season as 15 May to 31 October, the dates on the Park Service’s Bar Island page. The town, which runs the parking, lists 1 May to 30 October, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, with cars on Maine plates free from 1 to 14 May. The page now gives the town’s dates and notes the Park Service’s.

Our North Ridge page said that in “late October, November, December, January and February you can often just drive up” Cadillac for the first sunrise in the United States. For three of those months that is wrong.

The Park Service closes the Park Loop Road, including Cadillac Mountain, to vehicles from 1 December to 14 April. The window with no reservation and an open road is 26 October to 30 November, weather permitting. After that the summit is a winter hike, and the park calls traction on your boots essential on icy trails.

A reader planning a January sunrise drive would have found the road gated in the dark. The page now gives both windows and a winter caution.

Our campground page said there was “no fallback” and “no plan B” if you missed the 10 a.m. drops. The Park Service says otherwise: “Visitors are able to make same day reservations online at Recreation.gov if campsites are available.” Sites freed by cancellations are sold online on the day. There are still no walk-ups and no booking at the campground office.

That matters now. In 2026 Blackwoods is open until 19 October, and Seawall and Schoodic Woods until 12 October.

We have also added the nightly prices and site counts from Recreation.gov’s campground records: Blackwoods 281 sites at $30 to $60 a night, Seawall 178 at $22 to $60, Schoodic Woods 90 at $22 to $60, and Duck Harbor 5 at $20.

The Wildwood Stables page said twice that it earned us nothing. It carries a Viator link to the wider Bar Harbor catalog, and our disclosure explains how that link pays. The two sentences are gone.

The page now names the operator, Acadia by Carriage, LLC, and says where the carriage tours are actually sold: online through the operator, or on 207-600-7204. We also corrected one date gap: the operator’s season starts one day before the Park Service’s table, not three.

Three things were wrong on the page, and one was missing.

“Twelve large-ship days left” was not true. Twelve is the 2026 total. As of 23 September five remain after that day: 29 and 30 September, and 7, 13 and 14 October. The page now lists what is left and what has passed.

The bus advice broke on the last two days. We told passengers to use the free Island Explorer. Its 2026 season ends on 12 October, so passengers on the Norwegian Jewel on 13 October and the Norwegian Breakaway on 14 October have no free bus at all.

“Eight of the twelve are Wednesdays” was wrong. Seven are. The four Jewel calls are Tuesdays.

And we had missed the ruling. On 15 May 2026 a federal judge declared Bar Harbor’s 1,000-passenger cap unenforceable in every month except July and August. It is being challenged, and the town is taking no new advance reservations while it is. We had written that 2027 “depends on a court”; a court has ruled, and big ships in September and October 2027 are legally possible again.

We have also added the American Cruise Lines calls left in 2026, from the town’s own schedule.

The tours comparison told a non-US couple that an annual or America the Beautiful pass “costs considerably less than $200” and would cover the $100 nonresident fee for both of them, and advised non-US visitors to “buy the annual pass first”. The Cadillac page’s cost table showed the $70 and $80 passes as if anyone could buy them.

Neither pass is sold to non-US residents. The one they can buy is the $250 America the Beautiful Non-Resident Annual, which is more than the $200 a couple pays in fees at Acadia alone. It wins with three or four non-US adults in a tour group (it covers the holder and three more), or with a second surcharge park in the next 12 months.

We have also added the rule that helps most: non-US visitors riding in a private vehicle with anyone holding a valid America the Beautiful or park annual pass owe no nonresident fee at all. Our fees page already had the arithmetic right; the two pages that sell tours did not.

Our Ocean Path page said the walk out to Otter Cliffs was off. The Park Service’s alert closes the path “from a trailhead across from the Otter Point parking lot to the trail’s southern terminus”, and its own route description puts Otter Cliffs before Otter Point on the way south.

What is shut is the end of the trail: from the Otter Point parking lot, past Otter Point, to Otter Cove. Sand Beach to Thunder Hole is unaffected. The closure itself, which began on 31 August, has not changed and still has no reopening date.

The Park Service has a public health advisory posted for Sand Beach Lagoon. Bacterial levels exceeded public health standards, and the park advises against water contact there until they return to healthful levels.

The advisory is for the lagoon, not for Sand Beach itself, and the park’s alert says so in its title. Our Sand Beach page now carries it, along with the direct bus: Island Explorer Route 3 runs from the Bar Harbor Village Green to Sand Beach until 12 October, and in the fall the last bus back leaves the beach at 4:20 p.m.

Our where-to-stay page grouped Ellsworth and Trenton together and said neither had Island Explorer service. Trenton does.

The Acadia Gateway Center in Trenton is the start of Route 1. The operator says “Parking at the Acadia Gateway Center is free all day”, and the bus runs from there to the Bar Harbor Village Green every 30 minutes in the fall and every 20 in summer, from 20 May to 12 October in 2026. That makes Trenton a cheaper base that still works without driving into the park. Ellsworth has no Island Explorer service, as we said.

The page also said the park campgrounds open “on a rolling window”. They open in monthly blocks, six months ahead, as our campground page says.

From 21 September 2026 the eastern section of the Beech Mountain Loop Trail is closed for repairs, from a junction just beyond the parking lot to just below the summit fire tower. The Park Service has given no reopening date.

The summit is still reachable. The alert names three routes that stay open: the outer loop of the Beech Mountain Loop Trail, the Beech South Ridge Trail and the Beech West Ridge Trail. The alert’s headline calls it a road; the text makes clear it is the trail.

Beech Mountain and its fire tower are one of the west side’s fall-color summits, so the closure is on our fall foliage page. We will log it here when it reopens.

Neither of these is new. Both were missing from our page, and each one costs a reader something.

One sunrise reservation per vehicle every seven days. A week in Acadia buys one attempt at a clear sunrise from the summit, not seven. That is recreation.gov’s rule.

The $6 is non-refundable unless you cancel at least 48 hours before the start time. Changing the date or time is free as long as you do it before the reservation you hold begins — so move it rather than cancel it.

We also corrected two things we had stated loosely. The 90-day block opens at 10 a.m. Eastern, the same as the two-day drop; our table only gave the time for the two-day one. And the 30/70 split applies to sunrise and daytime alike, so our advice to plan around the 90-day window “rather than hoping for the two-day drop” was telling sunrise hunters to ignore seventy percent of the inventory.

We described the season as “roughly late June to Columbus Day” and said that in May the bus is not there. For 2026 that is wrong.

The Gateway Center, Loop Road and Schoodic routes begin 20 May 2026 — before Memorial Day. The remaining routes run 23 June to 12 October, with fall schedules from 17 August.

The Loop Road route is the one that reaches Sand Beach, Thunder Hole and Jordan Pond, so a late-May trip can use the bus after all. Our where-to-stay page was steering late-spring visitors away from Bar Harbor partly on the strength of the old dates.

This was the worst error on the site, because it would have talked you out of a booking you needed. We said the free bus reached the Cadillac summit, and that it was a way around the vehicle reservation.

The Park Service is explicit: “Cadillac is not served by the Island Explorer bus system”, and its routes “do not serve the summit”.

What does work without a vehicle reservation is arriving on foot, by bike or by taxi — the Park Service exempts all three — or on a paid guided bus tour, which carries its own access. If you want to drive up, book the reservation.

Our Precipice page listed an Island Explorer stop and told readers the bus served the trailhead in season. The Park Service says the opposite, in one sentence: “There is no public transportation to Precipice Trailhead.”

This is the same shape as the Cadillac error we corrected on 18 September — telling you the free bus goes somewhere it does not. Here it would have cost you a morning rather than a reservation, but the lot is small and on the one-way section of the Park Loop Road, so it would have cost you the morning.

While checking it we also found the page’s distance was wrong. NPS publishes 3.2 miles round trip for the Precipice Loop — the only route the park sanctions, because “descending the Precipice is dangerous and not advised” — against the 2.1 miles we had. The page now carries 3.2 and names the route.

The Bar Harbor to Winter Harbor ferry’s 5:30 p.m. from Bar Harbor and 6:30 p.m. from Winter Harbor are summer only. The operator’s timetable says so in a footnote: “5:30pm and 6:30pm Trips not available after Labor Day”, which was 7 September this year.

Our Schoodic page printed both sailings without that footnote and said we could not read it. Since Labor Day the last boat back from Winter Harbor is the 4:30 p.m., and there is no bus or quick road back if you miss it. The page now says so, and adds the bike fare: $6 a seat, no e-bikes.

From 31 August 2026 Schoodic Mountain Road is closed from Schoodic Loop Road to the summit of Schoodic Head. The Park Service says workers are using heavy equipment for resurfacing, regrading and ditching, and it has given no reopening date.

That gravel road is the route to Schoodic Head that our Schoodic page recommended, and until today the page did not mention the closure. It does now, and it points to The Anvil, off the Blueberry Hill parking area, as the walk to do while the road is shut.

We will log it here when it reopens.

From 31 August 2026 the southern section of Ocean Path is closed for repairs, from the trailhead opposite the Otter Point parking lot to the trail’s southern end.

Thunder Hole is north of the closed stretch and is reached normally, from Sand Beach or from its own lot. What does not work is the walk through to Otter Point.

No reopening date has been published. We are watching the park’s trail feed and will log it here when it moves.