U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Highway
Administration

Associate Administrator
John Baxter
202-366-9494
john.baxter@dot.gov
www.fhwa.dot.gov/flh/

Federal Lands Highway
provides planning,
design, and engineering
services to support the
highways and bridges
that provide access to
and within federally
owned lands.

Federal Lands Divisions

Eastern
Federal Lands

Eastern Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Melisa Ridenour
703-404-6201
melisa.ridenour@fhwa.dot.gov
dot.gov
www.efl.fhwa.dot.gov

Septemer 2007
See FLH website for sources

Fact Sheet

Maine FLHP

ME FLHP road miles: 715
Funding Authorized FY 98 – 07: $15,790,000
Federal land acreage as percentage of total state area: 1%*
ME population: 1,321,574

Maine State

National Park Service (5 units)
U.S. Forest Service (1)
Bureau of Indian Affairs/ Tribal Governments (5)
U.S. Fish andWildlife Service (10)
This percentage includeds Federal lands that are not part
of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map

The Federal Lands Highway Program in Maine. Acadia National Park was the first national park established east of the Mississippi River. Located on the coast of Maine, Acadia encompasses over 47,000 acres of granite-domed mountains, old-growth woodland forests, lakes, ponds, and craggy ocean shoreline.

The partnership between Eastern Federal Lands and the National Park Service in Acadia National Park reaches back to the boom of national park construction in the 1930’s when many of the roads in Acadia National Park were built. In the early 1980s, planning and design began anew for rehabilitating and enhancing the roads and carriage trails throughout the park, including the Park Loop Road and the Schoodic Loop Road.The Park Loop Road, along with Maine State Route 3, is part of the Acadia Byway and has been designated as an “All-American Road.”The Schoodic Loop Road is also part of the “Schoodic National Scenic Byway.”

Since 1999, propane-powered Island Explorer buses, established through the AlternativeTransportation in Parks and Public Lands (ATPPL) Program and state and private funding, have carried more than two million passengers in Acadia National Park, eliminating more than 685,000 automobile trips and preventing 6,444 tons of greenhouse gases.The farefree buses are supported by entrance fees.

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