REPORT FROM EAGLE LAKE CAMPGROUND - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

EAGLE LAKE CAMPGROUND
August 23, 1922

We expected to see maps and receive directions, but we did not expect to be received as if we had been expected all summer a dozen or so suggestions made for our comfort, six or eight telephone calls put through and a ranger to meet us and make certain of our comfort, said a man who came through from the middle west in his big car, with equipment and family and who doubled and than trebled the time of his stay.
At the head of Eagle Lake near the Horace Liscomb farm, Mr. Liscomb has looked after 40 camping parties during the past few weeks, parties who have made stays of varying lengths from one week to three, while campers for a night or two have come and gone pitched their tents with enthusiasm over the beauties of the place and folded them again, still highly satisfied and declaring their intention of coming again, praising the water supply, the fishing, the boats, the milk and eggs and vegetables, and the general suitability of the camping site.
The camping season has been a remarkable one and it marks an epoch in the life of the island constituting a very real problem which is coming rapidly to success in plans for solution.  The question of how best to entertain these visitors, who come from various parts of the country, teachers, lawyers, physicians, business men and women, government employees, all in search of refreshment by the sea or in the forest and scores of them, as they state attracted by the publicity given the park.