Lace up your boots, grab this guide, and explore the great outdoors! For this new edition, Adkins has retraced every path and accounted for any changes tothe trails, making “the most essential hiking guide to Maryland” even better. Mountain treks or beach walks, remote western waterfalls or hidden trails, you’ll find hikes for all skills and abilities.

Lace up your boots, grab this guide, and explore the great outdoors! For this new edition, Adkins has retraced every path and accounted for any changes tothe trails, making “the most essential hiking guide to Maryland” even better. Mountain treks or beach walks, remote western waterfalls or hidden trails, you’ll find hikes for all skills and abilities.

Lace up your boots, grab this guide, and explore the great outdoors! For this new edition, Adkins has retraced every path and accounted for any changes tothe trails, making “the most essential hiking guide to Maryland” even better. Mountain treks or beach walks, remote western waterfalls or hidden trails, you’ll find hikes for all skills and abilities.

Explore the natural beauty of Maryland on foot. Maryland affords a rich variety of natural places for residents and visitors to enjoy, from the Chesapeake shores through expansive Piedmont farmland to the Appalachian Plateau. And whether you’re headed to the seashore or the mountains, there are few better ways to experience these landscapes than on foot. With its excellent system of public lands—including national parks, state parks and forests, and even privately owned tracts open to the public—Maryland offers ample opportunities for hikers to find easy walks, challenging trails, and outstanding views. In Hike Maryland, Bryan MacKay takes you on twenty-five exceptional trips on the footpaths of the Free State. Drawing on his decades of experience as an avid hiker, lifelong Marylander, and expert naturalist, MacKay has assembled a list of the best hikes in the state. His beautifully illustrated guide tells you how to find the trails, describes the flowers and wildlife you’ll see along the way, and shares sensible advice about such concerns as ticks and poisonous snakes. Each individual trail guide includes key information, a map, and background on the natural history and ecology of the park, forest, or preserve, and offers a brief essay featuring a local plant, animal, or environmental issue. Whether you are venturing out on a solo trek on the Appalachian Trail, hiking with friends through Patapsco Valley State Park, or heading to Assateague Island with your family, this book will be an invaluable resource on your journeys. Hike Maryland is a companion guide to Cycle Maryland and Paddle Maryland.

Discover the 50 most kid-friendly hikes in the mid-Atlantic states with this book featuring maps and scavenger hunts of items to find along each trail—plus fun extras that will foster a curiosity about the region's flora, fauna, and geology! In the latest addition to the 50 Hikes with Kids series, educators Alison Humphreys and Wendy Gorton give your family everything you need to explore the lakes, rivers, seaside dunes, and mountain trails of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and Washington DC. Readers will find easy-to-read trail maps, intuitive directions, elevation and length details for every hike, restroom information, and places to grab a snack nearby. Plus, scavenger hunts for each trail make it fun for even the youngest trekkers to learn about local flora, fauna, and geology. Hikes include the Alapocas Run, the Calvert Cliffs, Theodore Roosevelt Island, the Blue Ridge Tunnel, Harpers Ferry, and more!

Whether you want to see snow geese and trumpeter swans pausing in their northward migration each March, or the mating jubileeof polychaete worms during the new moon in May, A Year across Maryland offers valuable advice for the spontaneous adventurer and the serious planner alike.