Date: August 27, 2019
Get in touch with: Christie Anastasia, 207 288-8806
Parking reservations are needed for vehicles at Mount Desert Island Substantial College to board the shuttle to the summit
BAR HARBOR, MAINE – The Cadillac Mountain Star Celebration will choose put from 8 to 11 pm on Saturday, September 28. Individuals have to reserve parking for their car at Mount Desert Island Higher School and journey a shuttle to Cadillac Mountain.
Contributors are invited to fall in at any time for the duration of the ongoing program to check out with a lot more than 50 volunteer astronomers and park rangers who will explain constellations and other celestial objects noticeable with the bare eye and telescopes. The best star viewing time will be after 9 pm. Individuals are totally free to stroll the summit and expend as substantially time as they like at the star social gathering.
Parking for the occasion is only accessible at Mount Desert Island Large College (1081 Eagle Lake Street, Bar Harbor) by ticketed reservation. Minimal reservations are only out there online on a to start with-arrive, to start with-served foundation for $5.00 for every motor vehicle. Reservations are nonrefundable if the celebration is canceled for any rationale (like temperature) or you are unable to attend. No over-sized vehicles (together with RVs, faculty buses, motor coaches, and automobiles with trailers) will be permitted to park at the superior faculty. To reserve a parking house for your motor vehicle, be sure to visit http://www.
Parking wherever along Eagle Lake Highway will be prohibited. Parking at the Cadillac Mountain summit is only available for motor vehicles with people today with disabilities (no reservations necessary). Cadillac Mountain Street will be shut to all other motor vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists at 6:45 pm.
Starting up at 7:30 pm, the shuttle will operate consistently among Mount Desert Island High School and Cadillac Mountain. The line for boarding the shuttle will form in the high faculty fitness center, and restrooms will be accessible. The final shuttle will depart Mount Desert Island Large School at 9:30 pm, and the final shuttle will depart Cadillac Mountain at 11:15 pm. Shuttle riders should really system on around 20 minutes to travel to summit or again to higher faculty. Make sure you notice that pets, coolers, folding chairs, and tripods are not authorized on the shuttle considering that area is really confined.
Participants are encouraged to dress warmly and limit flashlight use to preserve evening vision. If offered, guests need to use a red night time vision flashlight or include a standard flashlight with pink cellophane. The Summit Heart gift store and restrooms at the major of Cadillac Mountain will be open up in the course of the celebration.
Make sure you get in touch with 207-387-0807 to discover out if this occasion has been cancelled owing to climate.
The Star Celebration on Cadillac Mountain is a highlight of the 11th Annual Acadia Night time Sky Pageant, which will get spot in Acadia National Park and the bordering communities on Mount Desert Island and the Schoodic Peninsula from September 25 to 29, 2019.
The Acadia Night time Sky Competition is a neighborhood celebration to advertise the safety and pleasure of Downeast Maine’s stellar evening sky as a useful organic resource by way of education, science and the arts. The pageant will characteristic much more than 40 occasions, such as workshops, lectures, movies, boat cruises, arts and crafts, and, of study course, stargazing. For a entire schedule and description of pursuits, please visit www.acadianightskyfestival.org .
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