For 21 years, I have led an overnight backpacking excursion to a different wild spot in Pennsylvania on a cold, preferably snowy, winter weekend.
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For an unparalleled view of the Chesapeake Bay, drive to the end of Maryland Route 272, leave your car in the gravel lot and hike down an old …
Midmorning, early November, and our walk-and-coffee ritual along Daugherty Creek Canal at Janes Island State Park in Maryland comes to an abru…
The rental cabins at Camp Misty Mount in Catoctin Mountain Park were built in 1937.
From my campsite, I could hear coyotes calling in the mountains, as well as the eerie cry of a loon from the lake.
Robert and Dee Leggett wanted to buy a little natural land in Virginia, to preserve it and provide a local campground for Boy Scouts. But, in …
Ralph Heimlich is a kayaker and Chesapeake Bay enthusiast who hates to put down his paddle. So when the cold days of the new year stall his wa…
In the 1800s, steamboats regularly left the Chesapeake Bay to venture up the Choptank River and wind still farther upstream on Tuckahoe Creek.…
The entrance to Smallwood State Park was rerouted years ago, with one goal in mind-to answer the call of the river.