It was a TV commercial that made us decide to visit Acadia National Park. The ad agency could possibly have deserved a pat on the back for making a TV spot persuasive enough to convince skeptics like us to drive five-hundred miles, that is if the commercial was for Maine Tourism. It wasn't.

Instead, it was a car commercial. If I ever knew what model of car it was I have forgotten. It was the road that caught my eye. A rocky twisting beauty of a road that they identified with a caption as "Otter Cliffs". This was significantly pre-Internet, so it took some actual effort to find out where Otter Cliffs was. Time well spent, though.

Almost all the photos on this page were taken from spots along the loop road that starts just outside of Bar Harbor.