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National seashores are located in ten states and national lakeshores are in two other states. Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan each have two. The largest national seashore or lakeshore is Gulf Islands, at over 137,000 acres (550 km 2); the smallest is Fire Island, at 19,579 acres (79.23 km 2).
Assateague Island National Seashore is a unit of the National Park Service system of the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located on the East Coast along the Atlantic Ocean in Maryland and Virginia, Assateague Island is the largest natural barrier island ecosystem in the Middle Atlantic states region that remains predominantly unaffected by human development.
The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor opened on April 1, 2008 [9] in Oxon Hill, Maryland. [10] The site was developed by Milton Peterson's Peterson Companies with the project expected to cost well over $ 2 billion, [ 11 ] and a construction time frame of 2007 to late 2014.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "National lakeshores of the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
From multicolored rock cliffs to towering sand dunes, there's no shortage of beauty all around the Great Lakes.
The National Park Service controls 24 units in the state of Maryland. They range from sites of historical interest to sites of ecological interest to portions of the parkway system around Washington, DC. Many of the sites currently under the control of the National Park Service in Maryland were previously under the control of other agencies in ...
Maryland Route 177 (Mountain Road) is the main route through the community, running generally east–west along the center of the peninsula. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 17.6 square miles (45.7 km 2 ), of which 13.4 square miles (34.8 km 2 ) is land and 4.2 square miles (10.8 km 2 ), or 23.69%, is ...
Maryland has no natural lakes, mostly due to the lack of glacial history in the area. [7] All lakes in the state today were constructed, mostly via dams. [8] Buckel's Bog is believed by geologists to have been a remnant of a former natural lake. [9] Maryland has shale formations containing natural gas, where fracking is theoretically possible. [10]