Balance Rock - Bar Harbor, Maine
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denben
N 44° 23.339 W 068° 12.024
19T E 563686 N 4915388
This balance rock is located on the shore near the harbor along the coastal trail that begins at the boat dock in the town of Bar Harbor, Maine. It is very popular with photographers.
Waymark Code: WM17HKC
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 02/23/2023
Views: 3
The Bar Harbor Museum in the Streets marker entitled 'Balance Rock and the Ice Age' reads: "The large boulder on the shore in front of you is an excellent example of a glacial erratic and has been popular with the photographers for years. It has a different makeup than the surrounding rock, as can be seen by the color and texture of the stone compared to the ledge it sits on. It is not indigenous to this area and was left behind at the end of the last ice age more than 10,000 years ago. Geologist speculate that its origin is 40 miles northwest of here in the Lucerne area, just south of Bangor. The glacial ice was more than a mile thick and moved in a northwest to southeast direction. It played a major role in sculpting our bays, lakes, mountains and valleys, and scraped off the tops of the mountains leaving them rounded rather than pointed like the younger Rockies."
Note: You can draw the rock with or without people on it. At low tide, it is common to see people climbing on it.
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