Blackwoods Campground — Hotel in Mount Desert

Blackwoods Campground is one of 3 camping areas inside Acadia National Park, the northernmost being Schoodic Woods and the southernmost being Seawall. It is located just 6.4 miles from Bar Harbor, and within Park Loop Rd. The camping areas accommodate tents, travel trailers and Class A, B and C RVs. Bathrooms and potable water spigots are located throughout Loops A and B. RV sites in Loop A provide generous space with good shade. Sites may have a slight grade, so leveling of the trailer or RV may be needed. There are no electrical posts, but electrical generator time is allowed in Loop A in the morning and late afternoon.

Check-in at the ranger station was quick and easy. As a park entrance fee is required in addition to that for the site camping fee, the park ranger was very helpful and explained the various options. We settled on the America the Beautiful lifetime pass for seniors, which provides entrance or access to the pass owner and accompanying passengers in a single, private, non-commercial vehicle at Federal operated recreation sites across the country.

Loop A is located near Park Loop Rd. An access path to Park Loop Rd. and a scenic overlook to the Atlantic Ocean is between Sites A10 and A11. Walking along Park Loop Rd. in this area is generally safe as it is a one-way 2 lane road, with parking allowed in the right lane. Heading North from that overlook, it is a 0.8 mile walk along the road to Otter Cove Bridge and Causeway, and another 0.3 miles to Fabbri Park. Heading South from that overlook for 1.1 miles brings you to Hunters Beach Overlook and Hunters Beach.

A free bus service links this campground to Bar Harbor. From there, other buses can be taken to many different locations. Car parking in Bar Harbor is limited, but if a space is found, payment can be made through a phone app or kiosk. Limited paid parking for RVs is available on Main St. next to the YMCA Baseball Field; payment is made at a kiosk next to...

Acadia Blackwood Federal campground is right beside the gorgeous 27 miles " Parc Loop" ; the nicest Acadia Parc has to offer in my opinion :-) The camping sites are in a nice evergreen forest. I was there the last week of August which is less busy. I wouldn't want to be there in July or beginning of August ... Sorry for the rest I don't like to be negative but that's reality : There are no shrubs so you can quite easily see your eight or more neighbours through the sparse evergreens = No privacy :-( Some people have no manners and park staff don't check. This is one of the main parcs in the USA and it has No showers ! but they do have flush toilets, so no valid excuses ! Come on get with the times ! this isn't 1960 anymore. that's just shameful and bureaucratic bad management ( There are some private showers outside the camping at 15 cents a minute its like a slot machine, a real bad joke that's been there for 60 years ) No dish washing bassins, again no valid excuses ! Its under staffed. Often out of toilet paper. If you were planning on sleeping in for your vacation , you're out of luck because every morning around 8 am a big loud garbage trucks passes through all the camping ... This is somewhat related since "Bar Harbour" is the closest place for real groceries. I was told by the Parc Ranger, in season during the day, 5100 people get off Cruise ships there ! This makes for a super busy downtown indeed ... I couldn't go to Cadillac mountain since its by reservation only through Internet which i didn't have since there is NO WIFI. I think the whole area is over rated. One better alternative might be to stay at Lamoine State park which is about 40...

We were looking forward to camping here but you never know who is going to camp next to you. Unfortunately, we had a bunch of guys next to us that seemed to think the F word had to be used as every other word and yelled throughout the campground they were extremely loud and seating and yelling even when walking to the bathroom or dumpster. It seemed that the quiet time didn't apply to them, so you had to listen to it all into the late night, and again, early in the morning, it would start over. I'm sure those with kids didn't appreciate it either. They left at the end of the weekend so the rest of our stay was great. We never saw a ranger in the campground, and there was no camp host. The bathrooms were not very clean. The men's bathroom never had toilet paper, and the women's bathroom was out of soap. You had to bring your own. I think they refilled it sometime towards the end of our stay. There is no where to dry your hands, which I thought was odd for a national park. I've never stayed in one that didn't have hand towels or a hand dryer. Be sure to bring a towel or paper towels with you. Maybe carry extra toilet paper too. Our site was a perfect size for us. You are close to your neighbors, but that's okay since most are respectful and quiet. We were in a small trailer, but you could easily have a large tent or several tents instead of a trailer. They have great tent sites. They are spacious. We were in the B loop and stayed a week. There are no hook ups in the campground, it is adry camp. There is an Island Explorer bus that comes into the campground to pick you up and take you to several locations. It was a wonderful...