The park is expected to open for the 2010 summer season on or around Saturday, June 5. The park Visitor Center and Fee Booth are open 9:00 am-6:00 pm daily, from early June to Mid-October.
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.