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Rocks State Park is a public recreation area located in and around Deer Creek Valley near Pylesville, Harford County, Maryland. The state park 's 1,060 acres (430 ha) preserve the geologic formation known as the King and Queen's Seat and other features in three non-contiguous areas near the junction of Maryland Route 24 and Maryland Route 165.
Deep Creek Lake State Park. Garrett. 1,169 acres. 473 ha. 2000. Deep Creek Lake. Boating and fishing on Maryland's largest man-made lake, camping, hunting, hiking trails. Elk Neck State Park. Cecil.
Catoctin Mountain traverses Frederick County, Maryland and extends into northern Loudoun County, Virginia.It rises to its greatest elevation of 1,900 feet (580 m) above sea level just southwest of Cunningham Falls State Park [3] and is transected by gaps at Braddock Heights (Fairview Pass), Point of Rocks on the Potomac River and Clarke's Gap west of Leesburg, as well as several other unnamed ...
Point of Rocks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Frederick County, Maryland.As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,466. [3]Point of Rocks is named for the striking rock formation on the adjacent Catoctin Mountain, which was formed by the Potomac River cutting through the ridge in a water gap, a typical formation in the Appalachian Mountains.
Lake Needwood. Rock Creek is a tributary of the Potomac River, in the United States, that empties into the Atlantic Ocean via the Chesapeake Bay. The 32.6-mile (52.5 km) creek [1] drains about 76.5 square miles (198 km 2). Its final quarter-mile (400 m) is affected by tides. [2]
Calvert Cliffs State Park is a public recreation area in Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland, that protects a portion of the cliffs that extend for 24 miles along the eastern flank of the Calvert Peninsula on the west side of Chesapeake Bay from Chesapeake Beach southward to Drum Point. [2][3] The state park is known for the abundance of mainly ...
The Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, western Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, and Alabama. It is a major ridge-former in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of the eastern United States. [3] The Pottsville Formation is conspicuous at many sites along the Allegheny Front, the eastern escarpment of the ...
Matthew Henson State Park is a publicly owned greenway with recreational features that runs along Turkey Branch, a tributary of Rock Creek, in Montgomery County, Maryland. [2] The state park is managed by Montgomery County under an agreement with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. [3] It was named for Maryland native and arctic ...