Montreal is a perfect city for street photography and urban sketching—and no doubt I’ll be returning with the purpose of doing much more of each. But on this particular weekend, I’d like to think I was doing reconnaissance—scoping out all the places we’ll have to return to!

That same stillness and quiet in a typically bustling place is what draws us to Acadia National Park in the off-season, and in the winter in particular. While sharing the park, one of the most visited in the country, with so many others is certainly fun on some level of community and camaraderie, we’ve come to love the days and months when we can hear our only our own footsteps on a trail or when we share “hellos” with only a few others.