Courtesy of Mark Walker. Employed with Authorization
News Release Day: March 10, 2020
Contact: Christie Anastasia, 207 288-8806
BAR HARBOR, MAINE –The National Park Support has picked a photograph by Mark Walker of Smyrna, Georgia, as the winner of Acadia National Park’s 2020 once-a-year entrance move contest. The photograph portrays the Bass Harbor Head Gentle Station. Though this mild station is not at the moment a section of Acadia National Park, there are programs for this United States Coastline Guard home to be transferred to the Countrywide Park Services sometime this spring. The photograph will surface on countless numbers of annual entrance passes procured by site visitors from all in excess of the region. As a present of many thanks, Mr. Walker will get a 2020 Acadia Once-a-year Move exhibiting his profitable picture.
“We are thrilled to have received over 200 entries from 26 states as properly as from Canada,” mentioned Superintendent Kevin Schneider. “We want to thank everyone who shared their astounding visuals of Acadia National Park.”
The Acadia National Park once-a-year entrance go is obtainable for buy immediately after Could 1st at areas mentioned on the “Fees & Passes” Acadia National Park website https://www.nps.gov/acad/planyourvisit/costs.htm.
The NPS retains 80 p.c of the charges gathered from entrance pass gross sales to make investments in critical improvements that specifically benefit site visitors at Acadia Countrywide Park, which includes sustaining and enhancing customer facilities. The entrance pass revenues are also important for funding the operation of the Island Explorer bus method, which serves Acadia and its encompassing communities. The NPS utilizes the remaining 20 percent of costs gathered from entrance passes to profit other web pages in the Countrywide Park Procedure.
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