Off The Beaten Path
Voices in the Susquehanna Rocks
While the original people that once cared for and relied upon this beautiful landscape might no longer be here to tell us their story, their ancient messages can still be understood through the timeless pictures they etched in stone.
February 24, 2020
Off The Beaten Path
Franklin Point’s beauty plain as the eye can see
In Walter Neitzey’s four decades as a flight instructor and operator of Deep Creek Airport on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay 10 miles south of Annapolis, he probably never once looked down from his cockpit at the bucolic airfield below and thought it might some day be part of a nice state park. But now it is just that.
June 26, 2017
Off The Beaten Path
Paddling on the Sassafras River shows off the Bay that was
If Capt. John Smith could come back to retrace his Chesapeake journeys in the early 1600s, he might find portions of Foreman Creek much as he saw it four centuries ago. On this murky tributary of the Sassafras River, trees hug the shores, and lush green beds of wild rice blanket the shallows.
September 12, 2016
Off The Beaten Path
Paddling the Pocomoke: Tour of swamp to Chesapeake takes you back in time
The Pocomoke Rivers offers paddlers a different world of remote and untraveled salt marshes, cypress swamps and deep forests.
July 25, 2016
Off The Beaten Path
Upper Chester reverie
The upper Chester River offers a paradise for those paddlers who are looking for a relaxing day trip to meander and explore.
June 27, 2016
Off The Beaten Path
The Upper Chickahominy River
The swampy nature of the Upper Chickahominy River is one reason it remains a delight to explore, with largely undeveloped shores reminiscent of the landscape that Captain John Smith traveled in the early 1600s.
May 16, 2016
Off The Beaten Path
Little-known Savage Neck Dunes has pines, ponds & privacy
The 298-acre preserve features a mile of beachfront, dunes thought to be 10,000 years old, loblolly pines, oaks, red cedar trees and, in one swale, the rare southern bladderwort. Walk through what feels like the evolution of the landscape over thousands of years
April 18, 2016
Off The Beaten Path
Pickering Creek is a wonderful place to lose yourself, if you can find it
Pickering Creek Audubon Center was donated to the Chesapeake Audubon Society in 1984 to create a place where all visitors, regardless of age or background, could freely experience the beauty and wonder of the Chesapeake ecosystem.
February 15, 2016
Off The Beaten Path
Douglas Point Special Recreation Management Area
The Potomac River doesn’t just pour out of Washington DC and head straight for the Chesapeake. It has to bend around the Nanjemoy peninsula which juts out of Maryland like a big bulbous nose. Not a lot of people live here, and that makes it beautiful.
June 16, 2015
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