An Appalachian Mountain Club trail crew is working hard on Acadia’s trails this fall. In fact, they do it every year.

For more than a century, the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) has offered professional trail crews who maintain and construct trails throughout the Northeast.

For the last decade, they’ve come to Acadia for eight to nine weeks each fall to support park crews and tackle important park projects.

While Acadia National Park has a hard-working trails crew of its own, the work of the AMC crew helps get more done, from building drainage ditches, brushing back vegetation, or elevating trail tread.

The Appalachian Mountain Club works on a trail in the Great Meadow area in Acadia National Park. (Evie Linantud/Friends of Acadia)

This year, the six-person crew is spending those two months doing trail work on the Great Meadow Loop. The work will enhance recreation by making the trails safer, more accessible, and better able to endure climate change impacts.

“The crew really enjoys being here,” said Ellie Pelletier, AMC Professional Trail Crew Supervisor. “The crew can see the park and work on really impressive trails, and they see the importance of accessible trails in a park like this.”

One member of the crew, AMC’s Director of Trails Alex Delucia, is a former Ridge Runner (the precursor to today’s Summit Stewards) and helped build the section of the Great Meadow Loop in 2001 that the crew is helping rebuild this year.

Thanks to the AMC professional trail crew for their hard work!

The Appalachian Mountain Club’s professional trail crew helps Acadia National Park tackle projects. (Evie Linantud/Friends of Acadia)

(Evie Linantud/Friends of Acadia)

(Evie Linantud/Friends of Acadia)

(Evie Linantud/Friends of Acadia)

(Evie Linantud/Friends of Acadia)

(Evie Linantud/Friends of Acadia)