As Bar Harbor and nearby towns try to adjust to ever-increasing tourist traffic, the number of monthly visits to Acadia National Park has topped 800,000 for the first time ever.

Acadia had a record number of nearly 843,000 visits last month, according to data from the National Park Service published on Friday. The estimated total breaks a record that was set just over one month ago, when the National Park Service estimated that Acadia had 797,000 visits for the month of July .

Prior to this summer, Acadia’s busiest month had been July 2021, when it had 795,000 visits. Acadia had a record number of annual visits that year, topping 4 million for the first time, and has reached annual totals of roughly 3.9 million every year since.

Tourism industry officials have attributed the increase

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