Where to camp in Acadia National Park

Hi folks, I'm thinking about driving from Montréal with a friend on Sunday to climb at acadia national park. However, the campgrounds we checked (blackwoods, mount desert and bar harbour) are full. Any suggestion?

try smugglers cove. its a private one outside the park but nice. its near SW harbor.  if you cant find anything the wall mart in Elsworth is not really that far of a drive from the park. 

There are multiple private campgrounds on the Island and in Trenton just before reaching it. If worse comes to worse, just show up and I'm sure you find space in one if them---though likely to be expensive. Very soon after you come onto the Island and are driving on Route 3, you will encounter Mt. Desert Narrows campground in the left ( a short way after the Oceanarium). It is primarily an RV campground, but they have a section they call 'wild camping' --basically a field, and we always were able to get in there. Nothing special but adequate.

How many nights?

8 nights!

Céline Hequet wrote:

8 nights!

Mt Desert Narrows campground had about 50 tents(big group) in the area Al described last week,  I would check there for sure as I believe they are gone. It's a great campground as it has bus service to town and the park so you could park the car and bus it to almost every crag on the island. Free bus. Timberland and Forest Ridge in Ellsworth usually have tent sites as well and the drive isn't that long, closer to Clifton climbing too.

 I was gonna say that we could do a couple of nights here but I have more folks coming next week so we can't do anything that long. Message me for any other information,  I know of some good overnight spots besides a Walmart parking lot. 

We were able to reserved or 5 nights at bar harbour. The weekend after is obviously full. Unfortunately my friend is in a tent so parking lots don't work for us, but I'm sure we'll figure something out for the last 3 nights!