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Indian Point-Blagden Preserve, Bar Harbor, ME
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Indian Point-Blagden Preserve

A 110-acre Nature Conservancy preserve on Mount Desert Island with mature forest, rocky shore, and harbor seals offshore.

Bar Harbor, ME

About Indian Point-Blagden Preserve

This Nature Conservancy preserve sits on the Indian Point peninsula on the western side of Bar Harbor. Its forest escaped the 1947 fire that burned the central and eastern parts of Mount Desert Island, so it offers a different look at the island. Mature red spruce, white cedar, and balsam fir cover most of the land, with birch, oak, and maple mixed in and an eight-acre tamarack wetland near the center. Visitors can walk several trails through the woods, past the remains of an old apple orchard, to rocky gravel beaches on Western Bay. Harbor seals often rest on ledges offshore, and wildlife such as deer, porcupine, and osprey can be seen. The land was given to the Conservancy in 1968 by a family who had summered there.

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