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Camp David is a 125-acre (51 ha) country retreat for the president of the United States.It lies 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, 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
Catoctin Mountain Park in the county is the location of Camp David, a U.S ... MD 17; MD 26; MD 27; MD 28; MD 31; ... Map of Frederick County's urban areas ...
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 ...
Thurmont is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States.The population was 6,935 at the 2020 census.The town is located in the northern part of Frederick County (north of Frederick, the county seat), approximately ten miles from the Pennsylvania border, along U.S. Highway 15.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, briefly considered using Sugarloaf as his Presidential retreat, but he was persuaded by Strong to choose the nearby Shang-Ri-La site on the Catoctin Mountain, which today is known as Camp David. Strong set up a trust fund in 1947 that maintains a trail system and other tourist facilities at Sugarloaf Mountain.
Maryland Route 77 (MD 77) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.The state highway runs 20.74 miles (33.38 km) from MD 64 in Smithsburg east to MD 194 in Keymar.MD 77 is the main east–west highway of northern Frederick County.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt turned a Maryland camp into a presidential retreat in 1942. President Dwight Eisenhower changed the name to "Camp David" after his grandson. Subsequent presidents ...