Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Maryland: Walks, Hikes & Backpacks from the Allegheny Plateau to the Atlantic Ocean

by Leonard M. Adkins

Overview

Lace up your boots, grab this guide, and explore the great outdoors!

For this new edition, Adkins has retraced every path and accounted for any changes tothe trails, making “the most essential hiking guide to Maryland” even better. Mountain treks or beach walks, remote western waterfalls or hidden trails, you’ll find hikes for all skills and abilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581571738
Publisher:	Countryman Press, The
Publication date:	06/03/2013
Series:	Explorer's 50 Hikes
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	417,651
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Leonard M. Adkins has walked the length of the Appalachian Trail four times and has logged more than 16,000 miles in backcountry areas of North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. The author of numerous books on hiking and the outdoors, he has been awarded the National Outdoor Book Award and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award. Adkins lives in Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     7
Introduction     15
Western Maryland
Meadow Mountain and Deep Creek Lake     31
Muddy Creek and Swallow Falls     35
Herrington Manor State Park     39
New Germany State Park     44
Garrett State Forest     48
Big Savage Mountain     53
Lostland Run     59
Evitt's Mountain and Rocky Gap Gorge     64
Green Ridge     68
Paw Paw Bends and Paw Paw Tunnel     74
Antietam     79
Maryland Heights     84
Appalachian Trail     90
Capital Region
Catoctin Mountain     102
Gambrill State Park     111
Cunningham Falls     115
Catoctin Mountain Park     119
Deerfield Nature Trail and Owens Creek     125
Sugarloaf Mountain     129
Edwards Ferry to the Monocacy River Aqueduct     134
Schaeffer Farm     139
Little Bennett Regional Park     144
Rock Creek Regional Park and Lake Frank     149
Potomac River at Carderock     154
Great Falls Recreation Area     158
Billy Goat Trail     163
Greenbelt Park     166
Patuxent Research Refuge     170
Southern Maryland
Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary     176
Zekiah Swamp Run and Wolf Den Branch     181
Myrtle Grove Wildlife Management Area     186
Calvert Cliffs     191
American Chestnut Land Trust     196
Central Maryland
The Cascade and Buzzard Rock     202
Patapsco River     207
Soldiers Delight     211
Oregon Ridge     216
Big Gunpowder Falls     220
Northern Central Railroad Trail     225
Sweet Air     229
Gunpowder Falls State Park     233
Susquehanna State Park     239
Eastern Shore
Turkey Point on Elk Neck     246
Eastern Neck     250
Wye Island     254
Tuckahoe State Park     258
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge     262
Janes Island     268
Bald Cypress Nature Trail     273
Assateague Island     276
Index     283