Volunteering to help the park: A work crew installs a bench near Great Falls in 2016.
Supporting park projects: Catoctin Aqueduct after collapse in 1973
Supporting park projects: Catoctin Aqueduct after restoration effort in 2011
Exploring history and nature: Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct as viewed from the Western Maryland Rail Trail.
Protecting the canal since 1954: The association opposes Georgetown University’s plan to build a large boathouse in the park
Protecting the canal since 1954: The association opposes Georgetown University’s plan to build a large boathouse in the park
Exploring history and nature: Hikers gather at Fifteen Mile Creek Aqueduct in 2018.
Protecting the canal since 1954: Justice Douglas and eight others pause during their famous hike, which publicized the canal in 1954
Exploring history and nature: Ranger provides interpretation for hikers at Seneca Stone Cutting Mill in 2020.
Exploring history and nature: Hikers marvel at a large specimen during a tree identification walk in 2012
Volunteering to help the park: Association volunteer attaches plaque to newly installed bench in 2018.
Exploring history and nature: Association members participate in the last day of the 2009 Thru Hike at Great Falls
Volunteering to help the park: Association member helps install an identification sign at Landers in 2011
Exploring history and nature: Hikers gather at Dam 5 in 2019.
Protecting the canal since 1954: Justice Douglas and others rally against replacing the canal with a highway.
Volunteering to help the park: Association members repaint picnic tables at Swains Lock
Volunteering to help the park: Association volunteers assemble picnic table in 2018.
You can read more about the Association's Summer Field Trip to the Coal Miners' Memorial in Frostburg in our full-color, 32-page newsletter, Along the Towpath, available at this link: candocanal.org/atp/2026-6.pdf
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock 26, also known as Woods Lock, Montgomery County Maryland.
The lock was probably built in 1831 of sandstone floated some 17 mi downstream on the Potomac River from Seneca quarries. It was sometimes known as Fritch's Lock, and it was extended with wood and cribbing in 1881-82.
The lock house was a wooden frame structure on sandstone foundation. Sadly, it burned down in 1969. The foundation remains behind the enormous Silver Maple, which also doesn't have much time left. It has been marked with orange paint to be cut, because most of it has died.
The lock has been filled in by National Park Service to keep it from collapsing.
The stones were transported upriver from the quarry.
Giant old Silver Maple at Lock 26, Woods Lock, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Montgomery County Maryland