Meet Your Tour Guide
Hello there, I see you’re interested in exploring new places too!
My Name is Nathan Weber. I am the Founder and lead guide for Acadia Driving Tours. You’re likely hoping to know a little more before entrusting your life to me on some mountain road. -It’s kinda a small mountain. We’ll be fine!
I had dreamed of being a tour guide ever since I met one on my first adventure far away from the city where I grew up. People actually get to live… no, they are paid to live in an amazing place!? For meeting new folks and being a part of making their dreams of experiencing a location like a National Park, as special as possible? Sign me up!
I love the people who gave me a shot and poured their experience and knowledge into me. Driving tours with them came at such a perfect moment in my personal journey; it made living on this island even more special. The last couple seasons though, I started wondering if I had what it takes to create something like they had over thirty years ago. I also thought often about some of the unique things I might adjust or add if I had complete freedom to invent the perfect driving tour of Acadia.
This is not my first season guiding private tours, but 2024 is my first year as the owner of my own tour company. I have come up with my perfect version of a tour out here. I am excited about sharing it with you!
Thoughts and Inspiration For this Journey
I started Acadia Driving Tours because it was time to spread my own wings, to build something I’m proud of. And, because this island home is so worth sharing!
I grew up near a city. The forests all closed at dusk. Even the most beautiful places harbored noise and litter. Grandpa’s outdoorsman blood in my veins loved those trees where I was raised, but I always craved the wilder places out… there.
Did you know it’s possible to get a job where they actually pay you to live in a national park? Yellowstone was adventure on a grand scale. After a few years out west, I caught the wonder-lust bad.
After life drew me home for a time, I set off east, looking for an edge, somewhere with forests I could get lost in, mountains to hold me, and a view toward the new day as it lit the rolling ocean crashing upon rocks like long washed memories.
Acadia holds a more subtle magic than the American west. I love the mountains on both sides of our great rivers, but there is a song in the wind dancing leaves, and there is something deeply moving about the light here in Downeast Maine.
Acadia National Park includes Cadillac Mountain, one of the first places a new dawn touches the United States. Sunrise is special here. But there is something about an evening in Acadia. Something insistent in the magic and sound of light, wind, waves. It has been such a blessing to visit and explore spectacular places all around our country: but I live here.
My name is Nathan. If you’ll permit me, I would love to show you why this place is so special.
I would love to share these views with you.
It has been my dream to live out here, and to share the beauty of this place with others; I would love to meet you and help make your dream of a relaxing vacation on mount desert island, exploring bar-harbor and Acadia National Park, as excellent an experience as it possibly can be!