Where the mountains meet the Atlantic. Where America begins every single day. Acadia National Park clings to the rugged Maine coastline — a dramatic landscape of pink granite peaks, wild blueberry heaths, and surf-battered shores that feels like the very edge of the world. This is the only national park on the eastern seaboard where mountains rise directly from the ocean, creating a landscape so dramatic it stops you in your tracks. Every morning Cadillac Mountain becomes the first place in the entire United States to see the sunrise. For months out of the year the first rays of light to touch American soil land right here — on these pink granite peaks, on these crashing Atlantic waves, on this wild and beautiful coastline. Your virtual half marathon follows the legendary carriage roads past Jordan Pond, where the water is so clear you can see 24 feet to the bottom. Up the flanks of Cadillac Mountain where the whole Atlantic stretches to the horizon. Along the Ocean Path where harbor seals sun themselves on the rocks below and the surf crashes against ancient pink granite that has stood here since before the dinosaurs. 13.1 miles on the edge of America. The edge of the continent. The edge of what you thought you could do. Run where America greets the sun. Earn your place on the rocky coast of Maine.
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