Acadia National Park

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A national park on the coast of Maine with rocky shores and forested mountains

proper noun
/əˈkeɪdiə ˈnæʃənl pɑrk/

: Parque Nacional Acadia

Every year around mid-October, I visit Bar Harbor, Maine, home to Acadia National Park, to capture the fall foliage at its peak.
Acadia National Park in Maine

Examples

The most famous is Acadia National Park, which draws more than 10 million visitors a year.
The records from Acadia National Park are not included in the current checklist since data are available from other sources, and due to the distance from Eagle Hill and restrictions on collecting, these areas are not visited regularly by participants in the Institute's courses.

Academic text (2017)
A prime example is Acadia National Park in Maine, one of the park system's most popular natural landscapes.

Surface Forms

Acadia National Park main

Morphology

Acadia + national + park

The phrase is compositionally transparent: it combines a place name 'Acadia' with 'national' (state-level) and 'park' (recreational/natural area), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it is a national park called Acadia. This naming pattern is cross-linguistically common, though precise geographic or historical details (e.g., that it is in Maine, USA) require additional cultural knowledge.

Etymology

Acadia National Park may get its name from the old French word 'Acadie', which came from the Greek word 'Arcadia' meaning 'paradise' or 'peaceful land'. So the name suggests the park's wild coasts, forests, and mountains are a beautiful, peaceful place.