A 75-year-old was rescued early Saturday after the U-Haul he was driving broke through the ice on Echo Lake on Mount Desert Island. Photo courtesy of Southwest Harbor Fire Department.

On a trip to Maine’s Mount Desert Island, Dinaw Mengestu and his family had an ambitious, high-energy itinerary that included ...

A man was rescued early Saturday morning after the U-Haul truck he was driving crashed through the ice on Echo Lake in Mount Desert. The driver of the 10-foot box truck, identified only as a 75 ...

The man then took a right, directly onto the 2.5-inch thick ice on Echo Lake, ... He was transported by EMS to Mount Desert Island Hospital for evaluation.

Hosting part of Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island is 108-square miles of rocky shoreline, mountains, valleys, ... Echo Lake is a popular freshwater swimming area.

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In the mid-19th century, the Swiss-born geologist Louis Agassiz visited Maine on a vacation from Harvard University. The glacier-scoured bedrock formations on Mount Desert Island gave him plenty ...