The historic Carriage Roads in Acadia National Park are now closed for mud season. The National Park Service says the closure ...

“This year has been really a strange year for mud because of all the rain and everything we’ve had through the winter,” said Williamstown Road Foreman ... the ruts are very, very deep.

If it isn’t snow, it’s drifting snow, and if it isn’t drifting snow it’s mud, not isolated ... to the other side of the road. The combination of deep ruts, standing water, and very little ...

The closure is intended to protect the 45-mile network gravel roads as warmer weather arrives and with it wet conditions.