Spreading out across a rocky mountaintop, they take part in the tradition that is observing the sunrise in Maine’s vast Acadia National Park.

Its 47,000 acres, with their sharply hewn coastline and pristine woods, take up much of Mount Desert Island, and those who make the pilgrimage up Cadillac Mountain – the highest point on America’s Eastern Seaboard – are some of the first in the United States to see the sun peek over the horizon.

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