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Camp David is a 125-acre (51 ha) country retreat for the president of the United States.It is located in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park, in Frederick County, Maryland, near the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of the national capital city of Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] It is code named Naval Support Facility Thurmont.
Camp Misty Mount: A Place for Regrowth, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan; Catoctin Mountain Park Historic District, Frederick County, Inventory No.: F-6-147, WA-IV-269, including boundary map, at Maryland Historical Trust website
Take a look at how Camp David has changed through the years. Camp David was known as Shangri-La when President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it as a presidential retreat in 1942. Shangri-La ...
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 ...
US President Dwight Eisenhower (1890 - 1965) (left) and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1874 - 1971) at Camp David, Maryland, September 25, 1959.
Biden chose the rustic redoubt in the Maryland hills for the first U.S.-Japan-South Korea summit because Camp David has often been used to symbolize newfound or hard-won friendship, a senior ...
The 2000 Camp David Summit was a summit meeting at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat. The summit took place between 11 and 25 July 2000 and was an effort to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict .
Joe Biden arrived on Friday for his first weekend as U.S. president at Camp David, the storied retreat in the mountains of western Maryland that many predecessors found to be a rustic getaway from ...