BIRTH OF BLACKWOODS CAMPGROUND - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

MAY HAVE BIG TOURIST CAMP IN BLACK WOODS
Bar Harbor Times
September 16, 1925

Recommendation of V.I.A. Committee for One Big Camp Ground on Western Shore of Otter Creek - Project, Including New Bridge Now Under Consideration.
The recommendation of the special committee from the Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor Village Improvement societies is that there be one automobile tourist camp ground for all Mt. Desert Island and that the best available place for such a camp-ground is in the tract known as the Black Woods on the western shore of Otter Creek.  The report was made by Mr. Gist Blair, President of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association and chairman of the committee appointed by the Department of the Interior and the several societies to study the situation.  The other members of the committee are Mr. Lincoln Cromwell, President of the Northeast Harbor Village improvement Association and Mr. Roscoe C.F. Brown, President of the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society.
The problem of providing a suitable camp site or sites for the large number of campers coming here each season has had the attention of Lafayette National Park officials, town officials, V.I.A. officers and directors of the Board of Trade.  The Joint Committee of which Mr. Blair is chairman have agreed upon the policy of a single large camp.
It is rumored that an investigation of the possibilities of the Black Woods tract has been under way for some time and that the land may be acquired for the purpose.  It is also stated that a fine stone or concrete bridge may be built across Otter Creek at a point not far from the old bridge near the radio station.  Such a bridge would provide an ideal entrance to such a tourist camp from the Bar Harbor side and from the Seal and Northeast Harbor side there would be an excellent approach over the route to the present road.
The tract known as the Black Woods contains about 250 acres on the Western shore of Otter Cliffs.  There is much high land sloping toward the creek and most of the land is heavily wooded.  It commands splendid views of the mountains and sea.  The land is very desirable in every way and a tourist camp-ground situated there would be ideally located.  This land for a long time been owned by the Seal Harbor Reality Company.