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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.
The aquarium began in the mid-1970s when then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer, (1921–2011), and the Commissioner of the city Department of Housing and Community Development, Robert C. Embry, inspired by a visit to the two-decade old New England Aquarium on the waterfront of Boston, Massachusetts, conceived and championed the idea of an aquarium as a vital component of Baltimore's overall ...
Richard and Mary Anne Hahn purchased the Catoctin Wildlife Preserve in 1966 — before any children were in the picture — and it has been intertwined in ... Family remembers daughter with ...
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 ...
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.
Council Grove Pavilion outside the zoo's entrance An African penguin at the Six-to-Fix Gala 2016 event. Many events are held at the Mansion House at the zoo. The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is generally considered to be the third oldest [4] (or by some other circumstances, the second oldest) zoological park in the United States, having opened in 1876, sixteen years after the historic Park itself ...
View of a creek in the park. Gambrill State Park is a public recreation area located on Catoctin Mountain near the city of Frederick in Frederick County, Maryland.The state park is known for the dramatic views of the surrounding area that can be seen from stone overlooks built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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]