Maryland: 52 state parks, 11 natural areas, 2 historic sites, 2 state trails and 1 state forest

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Assateague State ParkTwo miles of Atlantic beach lie behind the dunes here, with a campground close enough to hear the surf and…
Big Run State ParkPrimitive campsites sit where Big Run empties into the Savage River Reservoir, with the Monroe Run Trail…
Bill Burton Fishing Pier State ParkSpans of the old Choptank River bridge were kept as fishing piers, reaching out over the channel from…
Black Walnut Point Natural Resources Management AreaFifty-three acres at the southern tip of Tilghman Island, where gravel lanes and footpaths run out to open…
Bohemia River State ParkA young park on the Bohemia River in Cecil County, where the first phase of trails is open for walking and…
Calvert Cliffs State ParkThe Red Trail runs 1.8 miles out to a Chesapeake beach below the cliffs the park is named for, through 1,079…
Casselman River Bridge State ParkOne 80-foot stone arch carried the National Road over the Casselman River here, and the four acres around it…
Cedarville State ForestColor-coded loops — Blue, Brown, Green, Orange and White — cover about 19 miles through 3,707 acres of…
Chapel Point State ParkTrails and a boat ramp on the Port Tobacco River, a tidal arm of the Potomac in Charles County. The county…
Chapman State ParkMature forest above the Potomac, with the Mt. Aventine mansion at its center and the Coastal Woodlands and…
Cunningham Falls State ParkA cascade drops through the Catoctin Mountains here, with a lake for swimming and paddling below it and 4,400…
Cypress Branch State ParkThree hundred and fourteen largely undeveloped acres in Kent County, with a three-acre pond to fish and open…
Dan's Mountain State ParkA 481-acre park on the long ridge above Lonaconing, built around a step-free swimming pool and four group…
Deep Creek Lake Natural Resources Management AreaThe management area wraps the shoreline of a 3,900-acre lake impounded in 1925 for hydroelectric power, west…
Deep Creek Lake State ParkMore than 1,800 acres run down to the Deep Creek Lake shoreline, with a campground, a nature center and a…
Elk Neck State ParkA peninsula of 2,370 acres between the Elk River and the Chesapeake, ending at the Turkey Point light. Named…
Fair Hill Natural Resources Management AreaEighty miles of trail cross 5,600 acres of rolling Cecil County farmland, past the Foxcatcher Farm covered…
Fort Frederick State ParkA stone fort built for the French and Indian War still stands here, its walls looking out over Big Pool and…
Franklin Point State ParkA 477-acre peninsula of marsh, field and forest between the Chesapeake, Deep Creek and Flag Pond in southern…
Freedman's State ParkA thousand acres carved out of Patuxent River State Park to tell the story of the Howard family, who went…
Gambrill State ParkStone overlooks on the Catoctin ridge look out across the Middletown Valley, with the Catoctin Trail and…
Gathland State ParkThe Appalachian Trail crosses Crampton's Gap right past the War Correspondents Memorial Arch, raised by the…
Greenbrier State ParkA 42-acre lake sits in a bowl on South Mountain, with a swimming beach, a campground and the Appalachian…
Greenwell State ParkFive hundred and ninety-six acres of Patuxent River farmland given to the state by the Greenwell family in…
Gunpowder Falls State ParkThe park follows the Gunpowder from trout water at Bunker Hill down to the Hammerman beach and Dundee Creek…
Hallowing Point Waterfront ParkFifteen acres of Patuxent River frontage in Calvert County: two ramps, a parking area and shore worth a rod…
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State ParkSeventeen acres and a visitor center in the Dorchester County landscape where Araminta Ross was born in 1822…
Hart-Miller Island State ParkAn island in the upper Chesapeake reachable only by your own boat, with 22 campsites, a sand beach and a…
Helen Avalynne Tawes GardenFive acres behind the Department of Natural Resources headquarters in Annapolis, laid out as miniature…
Herrington Manor State ParkTwenty furnished log cabins sit above a 53-acre lake inside Garrett State Forest, rented year-round. Swim and…
Janes Island State ParkThirty miles of marked water trail thread the marsh islands off Crisfield, reached from a campground and boat…
Martinak State ParkForest, field and marsh on the Choptank River and Watts Creek, deeded to the state in 1961 and kept small…
Merkle Natural Resources Management AreaCanada geese winter here in greater numbers than anywhere else on the bay's western shore, across 1,900 acres…
Monocacy Natural Resources Management AreaEighteen hundred acres of woods and farmland along the Monocacy near Dickerson, with unmarked paths shared by…
Morgan Run Natural Environmental AreaTwo thousand acres of Carroll County countryside with hiking and equestrian trails and no facilities to speak…
New Germany State ParkA 13-acre lake dammed in the 1800s to power a sawmill sits at the center of the park, ringed by cabins and…
Newtowne Neck State ParkA 794-acre peninsula with seven miles of waterfront, held between Breton Bay, the Potomac and St. Clements…
North Point State BattlefieldNine acres of open ground — the last undeveloped piece of the field where 3,000 Maryland militia met British…
North Point State ParkThe Bay Shore Amusement Park drew summer crowds here from 1906 to 1947; its 1,310 acres are now parkland…
Palmer State ParkFive hundred and fifty-five acres along Deer Creek, a state scenic river, with two miles of trail and old…
Patapsco Valley State ParkThirty-two miles of the Patapsco in eight developed areas, from Avalon up to McKeldin, with more than 170…
Patuxent River State ParkSix thousand seven hundred acres of natural area and farmland along the upper twelve miles of the Patuxent…
Pocomoke River State ParkThe northernmost bald cypress swamp in the country lines the Pocomoke here, with campgrounds at Shad Landing…
Point Lookout State ParkA peninsula where the Potomac meets the Chesapeake, with a lighthouse, the remains of a Civil War prison camp…
Rocks State ParkThe King and Queen Seat, a 190-foot rock outcrop above Deer Creek, is the short steep climb everyone makes…
Rocky Gap State ParkA 243-acre lake in a gorge under Evitts Mountain, with a campground, yurts, mini-cabins and the Canyon…
Rosaryville State ParkA 1,227-acre day-use park built around the Perimeter Trail, a 9.75-mile loop that riders, cyclists and…
Sandy Point State ParkSand beaches look straight up at the Bay Bridge, with a marina, boat ramps and a 17-acre pond behind them. It…
Sang Run State ParkThe Friends Delight homestead, farmed from the early 1800s and given to the state in 2008, with the restored…
Sassafras Natural Resources Management AreaHigh banks above the Sassafras River and Turner's Creek open out to the Chesapeake, with nine miles of trail…
Seneca Creek State ParkA 90-acre lake at Clopper, with a boat center, disc golf and the Seneca Greenway following the creek all the…
Smallwood State ParkSweden Point Marina sits on Mattawoman Creek, which draws bass tournaments to the park several times a year…
Soldier's Delight Natural Environment AreaThe largest of Maryland's few remaining serpentine grasslands, 1,900 acres of prairie grass and oak savanna…
South Mountain State BattlefieldThe gaps of South Mountain — Crampton's, Fox's and Turner's — where the first major Civil War battle on…
South Mountain State ParkForty miles of Blue Ridge crest run the length of Maryland, from Pennsylvania down to the Potomac, carrying…
St. Clement's Island State ParkForty-three acres in the Potomac, reachable only by boat or water taxi from Colton's Point, where the first…
St. Mary's River State ParkTwo separate tracts at the head of the St. Mary's River watershed: Site 1 holds a 250-acre lake with a boat…
Susquehanna State ParkRocky, heavily wooded ground along the lower Susquehanna, with a campground and camper cabins above trails…
Swallow Falls State ParkMuddy Creek Falls drops 53 feet, the highest free fall in Maryland, and the Canyon Trail loops past it…
Torrey C. Brown Rail TrailNineteen and a half miles of the old Northern Central Railway, from Ashland north to the Pennsylvania line…
Tuckahoe State ParkA 60-acre lake on Tuckahoe Creek with a campground, camper cabins, an equestrian center and an archery range…
Washington Monument State ParkThe first monument finished in George Washington's memory, a squat stone tower raised by the citizens of…
Western Maryland Rail TrailAbout 28 paved miles beside the C&O Canal towpath, flat enough for wheelchairs, inline skates and children's…
Wolf Den Run State ParkThe largest network of off-road vehicle trails in Maryland, on 2,039 acres of old coal ground above the…
Woodmont Natural Resources Management AreaThe old Woodmont Rod & Gun Club near Hancock, 3,425 acres of Sideling Hill ridge with the Wildlife Heritage…
Wye Island Natural Resources Management AreaTwenty-eight hundred acres of farmland and shoreline in the tidal recesses between the Wye and Wye East…
Wye Oak State ParkTwenty-nine acres around the site of the Wye Oak, the state tree that fell in June 2002, with a pavilion…
Youghiogheny Wild River Natural Environmental AreaTwenty-one miles of the Youghiogheny between Oakland and the Pennsylvania line, protected as a wild river and…

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