Acadia National Park will stop accepting cash for fees starting April 15.
Cash sales make up less than 5 percent of all in-person sales in the park, according to the National Park Service, and rangers typically spend “up to eight and a half hours per day documenting, reporting, and transferring cash receipts.”
Moving to a cashless system is meant to lessen the amount of time park staff spend handling cash, “and increase their availability to collect fees, increasing the amount of fee revenue available to support critical projects and visitor services,” the park service said.
Visitors who are only able to pay with cash will still be able to buy a park pass from one of these third-party vendors:
- Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce, 2 Cottage St., Bar Harbor
- Gouldsboro Town Office, 59 Main St., Prospect Harbor
- Jordan Pond Gift Shop, 2928 Park Loop Road, Seal Harbor (open seasonally)
- Mount Desert Town Office, 21 Sea St., Northeast Harbor
- Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce, 42 Harbor Drive, Northeast Harbor (open seasonally)
- Schoodic Institute Welcome Center, 1 Atterbury Circle, Winter Harbor (open seasonally)
- Southwest Harbor & Tremont Chamber of Commerce, 329 Main St., Southwest Harbor (open seasonally)
- Tremont Town Office, 20 Harbor Drive, Bass Harbor
- Winter Harbor Town Office, 20 School St., Winter Harbor
