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For information on Maryland's State Park, Forests, and Greenways including trails for hiking and horseback riding: www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/ Maryland Greenways, Water Trails and Green Infrastructure information is available from the Maryland Greenways Commission: www.dnr.state.md.us/greenways/ Pocomoke State Forest is 14,753 acres in Worcester County, between Snow Hill and Pocomoke City: www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/pocomokeforest.html The Great Outdoors Resources Page (GORP) has information on Maryland's National Forests: www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/US_National_Forest/soeast.HTM National Park Service units in Maryland: http://data2.itc.nps.gov/parksearch/state.cfm?st=md Mountain bike trails with detailed maps and descriptions from Maryland mountain biking books at Trails.com: Bike rides on Maryland roads and paved pathways from road biking books at Trails.com: The Maryland Association of Mountain Bike Operators (MAMBO) has information on trails, events, and activism: www.bikemobile.com/mambo/ Maryland bicycle routes and trail maps are available at: www.dnr.state.md.us/outdoors/biking.html Bike Trails and B & Bs in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia: www.BBBiking.com The Bowie Area Hiking and Biking Coalition details riding and hiking in the Maryland suburbs of DC: http://members.nova.org/~jrjones/bike.htm Cumberland Valley Cycling Club is based in Hagerstown: www.bikecvcc.com The East Coast Greenway is a project underway to link seabord states with a largely off-road route; information is available for Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland: www.greenway.org/ Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts organizes trail work, advocacy, and events in the Maryland-DC-Virginia area: www.more-mtb.org/ Oxon Hill Bicycle and Trail Club -- "More and Better Bicycling in Southern Maryland": http://ohbike.org/ Washington Area Bicyclist Association provides a tremendous resource for DC area trails as well as all bicycling issues: www.waba.org/The Horse Trails and Campground Directory has information on bridle paths, trailheads, horse campgrounds, overnight stay facilities, and bed & breakfasts Greenways and Community Trails Plans and maps for 11 Anne Arundel County greenways: http://www.dnr.state.md.us/greenways/aa.html Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails: www.friendsofaatrails.org/ The Bowie Area Hiking and Biking Coalition details riding and hiking in the Maryland suburbs of DC: http://members.nova.org/~jrjones/bike.htm The Gwynns Falls Trail is an urban greenway and stream valley connector through west and southwest Baltimore: www.gwynnsfallstrail.org/ Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway plans 40 miles of trails connecting Harford and Cecil Counties: http://www.hitourtrails.com/index.html Friends of the Patapsco and Heritage Greenway: www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/ha-patap.html The Potomac River Greenways Coalition promotes a regional network of greenways along the Potomac River and its tributaries: www.fairfaxtrails.org/prgc/ Descriptions and transit information for major DC area routes are at www.waba.org/new/paths/index.php Hiking trail maps, hike descriptions, and Maryland topographic maps at Trails.com: The Wanderbirds Hiking Club, founded in 1934, is a non-profit, all volunteer club that organizes day hikes every Sunday, year round, for energetic folks in the Washington, DC area. You do not have to be a member of the Club to hike with us. http://www.wanderbirds.org The Capital Hiking Club offers trips as well as trail information at: www.capitalhikingclub.org/ The Chesapeake Hiking & Outdoors Society of Annapolis, Maryland, offers hikes and a newsletter: www.chaoshikers.org MidAtlanticHikes.com has maps and trail descriptions for hikes in MD, PA, VA and WV Maryland Running Guide: www.marylandrunning.com/ The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club is a volunteer trails organization headquartered in the Washington, D.C. region dedicated to the upkeep and improvement of 970 miles of trails, 30 shelters, and 23 cabins in VA, MD, WV, PA, and DC: http://patc.simplenet.com/ The Potomac Apalachian Trail Club also maintains a list with good descriptions of Places to Hike/Backback in the Washington, D.C./ Mid-Atlantic Region: http://patc.simplenet.com/rec.html The Mountain Club of Maryland provides group hikes and information on the mountainous areas accessible to Baltimore: www.mcomd.org/ American Volkssport Association year-round walking and Volkssport Event Calendar Hiking trails along the Appalachian Trail (AT) in Maryland at Trails.com: The American Discovery Trail is America's first coast-to-coast hiking, biking and equestrian trail; for information on the ADT thru DC and Maryland: www.discoverytrail.org/states/maryland/index.html The Appalachian Trail in Maryland folows a forty-mile route along the backbone of South Mountain, a north-south ridge that extends from Pennsylvania to the Potomac River The Great Eastern Trail plans to link existing trails alongthe Appalachian Mountains from Alabama to the Finger Lakes Trail in New York: www.greateasterntrail.org/ The Great Allegheny Passage is the main line of a trail system running from the C&O Canal Towpath at Cumberland, Maryland, to the Forks of the Ohio River at Pittsburgh on a near-level rail-trail through the Allegheny Mountains: www.atatrail.org/
Maryland rail-trails including maps, access points, and history from rails-to-trails books at Trails.com: The Allegheny Highlands Trail follows the historic Western Maryland Railroad for 22 miles from Cumberland to the Pennsylvania: www.ahtmtrail.org/ The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail runs 184 miles from Washington, D.C. along the Potomac River to Cumberland, Maryland.: www.fred.net/kathy/canal.html The Baltimore and Annapolis Trail Park in central Maryland runs 13 miles: http://web.aacpl.lib.md.us/rp/parks/bat/index.html The Capital Crescent Trail runs 7 miles between Georgetown and Bethesda, and 4 miles to Silver Spring: www.cctrail.org/ For a locator map and detailed descriptions of rail trails in the Washington, D.C., area and a few others in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia: http://bikewashington.org/trails/dc-index.htm Western Maryland Rail Trail is a 20+ mile trail that follows the bends and curves of both the C&O Canal and the Potomac River: www.westernmarylandrailtrail.org/WMRT/
Maryland whitewater kayaking and rafting, with maps and launch points at Trails.com: Janes Island State Park on Chesapeake Bay has a variety of marked and mapped water trails: www.dnr.state.md.us/outdooradventures/watertrail.html The Maryland Greenways and Water Trails Program of Maryland Department of Natural Resources: http://www.dnr.state.md.us/greenways/commission.html Potomac River Water Trail Map highlights access points along the southern reaches of the river from Washington D.C. to the Chesapeake Bay in both Maryland and Virginia: www.baygateways.net/product.cfm?pid=20 |
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