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The Catoctin Wildlife Preserve is a 100-acre (40 ha) zoo and wildlife preserve (25 acres (10 ha) are accessible to the public) located on Maryland Route 806 in Thurmont, Maryland, United States. The preserve features safari truck rides that let visitors touch and feed large herbivores in a wooded setting.
Mar. 27—Catoctin Wildlife Preserve threw open its doors this week after being closed for the winter, inviting visitors in to see some of the changes spring has brought. Among the changes to the ...
Jun. 12—Many school children may typically pass neighborhood dogs or cats on their way to the bus stop. For Thurmont's Hahn family, however, the three children would greet an arctic fox, spider ...
The zoo was privately owned by Bob Candy of Cumberland and has no paid employees, run only by volunteers. [2] In February, 2020, four years after beginning a legal battle, PETA forcibly removed three big cats from Tri-State Zoological Park to a facility in Colorado. [3] The zoo was not accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. [4]
Catoctin Quaker Camp (CQC) is a Quaker residential-wilderness summer camp located near Frederick, Maryland, operated by Baltimore Yearly Meeting.It welcomes both Quaker and non-Quaker children between the ages of 9 and 14, organizing them into "units" based on their age.
Catoctin Mountain Park is a park located in part of the Monocacy Valley and Catoctin Mountain ridge−range that forms the northeastern rampart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the Appalachian Mountains System. The park is approximately 5120 acres or 8 square miles (21 km 2) in area.
Cunningham Falls State Park is a public recreation area located west of Thurmont, Maryland, in the United States.The state park is the home of Cunningham Falls, the largest cascading waterfall in Maryland, a 43-acre (17 ha) man-made lake, and the remains of a historic iron furnace. [4]
Catoctin Colorfest is an annual arts and crafts festival in Thurmont, Maryland. Every year about 125,000 people attend, making it one of the largest festivals of its kind on the east coast of the United States. [1] In 2005 Colorfest was recognized as one of the top 35 arts and craft shows in the United States by Sunshine Artists Magazine. [2]