Day hikes in Maine's Acadia National Park, the first national park east of the Mississippi and one of the most popular destinations in the park system.
Dolores Kong and Dan Ring backpacked all 270 miles of the Appalachian Trail in Maine and have been hiking and backpacking together for years in New England and elsewhere. Dolores is a reporter at the Boston Globe and Dan is statehouse bureau chief in Boston for the Union-News of Springfield, Massachusetts.