Essex, Maryland Travel Information

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Eastern Regional Park Trail (Distance: 4.3 mi) Spot a great blue heron wading in Saltpeter Creek among the rushes and cattails. Head left on the trail at the wooden fences where tall cattails sway in the breeze. This network of paved paths runs be...

Chase, MD - Hiking - length:1.4 mi

Hart-Miller Island Campground (Distance: 5.7 mi) If you want to feel like a modern day Robinson Crusoe, take a boat to Hart-Miller Island, at the mouth of the Back River in the Chesapeake Bay. OK, it’s not so remote that you’ll feel like that famous...

Breezy Point Beach, MD - Campgrounds - length:unknown

Double Rock Park (Distance: 5.9 mi) Enjoy a remarkably isolated spot where Stemmers Run meanders over a slew of rocks in the heart of heavily populated Parkville-Overlea. The Parkville Recreation Council manages the Double Rock recreati...

Parkville, MD - Hiking - length:2.25 mi

North Point State Park (Distance: 6.1 mi) See how things have (and haven’t) changed in an area of undeveloped bay-front property where evidence of human habitation dates back 9,000 years. The white-blazed gravel-and-grass trail behind the por...

Fort Howard, MD - Hiking - length:3.6 mi

Herring Run Park–Lake Montebello (Distance: 7.1 mi) Stroll around the busy urban retreat of Lake Montebello and then plunge into the thick woods surrounding Herring Run, a forested marvel surrounded by dense population. A $20 million restoration to Lak...

Baltimore, MD - Hiking - length:3.7 mi

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Sparrow Point 1 Sparrows Point Country Club Private Non-Equity, 18 holes 6887 yards, par 72 3.5 miles from center of Essex, Maryland

Sparrow Point 2 Sparrows Point Country Club Private Non-Equity, 9 holes 0 yards, par 0 3.5 miles from center of Essex, Maryland

Rocky Point Rocky Point Golf Course Municipal, 18 holes 6753 yards, par 72 4.0 miles from center of Essex, Maryland

Clifton Park Clifton Park Golf Course Municipal, 18 holes 5954 yards, par 71 7.5 miles from center of Essex, Maryland

Mt. Pleasant Mount Pleasant Golf Course Municipal, 18 holes 6728 yards, par 71 7.8 miles from center of Essex, Maryland

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