Upcoming Events (see full calendar)
Erie Canal Museum has posted a video of their December 22 program: Interesting Infrastructure: Four Unique Mid-Atlantic Canals. You can find it at: https://youtu.be/XnvLIMoKC_8 With the completion of the Erie…
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.
Looking Back: Deep Creek Lake could have been part of C&O Canal
Looking Back: Deep Creek Lake could have been part of C&O Canal
www.times-news.com
Garrett County’s biggest tourist attraction could have looked very different if the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal had continued past Cumberland. Deep Creek Lake was created from building a dam andI vote for finishing the job! Also, fix and rewater the other direction! The British saved their canals! Dreaming...of course. But a fella can dream.
Or any drawings of the plans available
Interesting, but…I was under the impression that the plan was to follow Wills Creek into PA, and that the Canal would have basically followed the route that became the B&O’s Sand Patch Grade…
The C&O Canal planned to extend to Confluence,, Pennsylvania—then noted as “the confluence of the Youghiogheny River, Casselman River, and Laurel Hill Creek. 🇺🇸
Hancock Trails Day June 3
Celebrate National Trails Day in Hancock June 3. The festival will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hancock is Maryland’s official Trail Town, located on the C&O Canal and near the midpoint of the 250-mile-long Tuscarora Trail, which branches off the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park and heads north to Duncannon, PA.
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, the C&O Canal Association, and other groups will have booths along the south side of the canal in the center of town. PATC has scheduled two speakers and will lead short hikes along the Tuscarora Trail. For more information or to register for a hike, visit their website at www.patc.net/PATC/Hancock_Trails_Day.aspx.
You can always find a list of C&O Canal Association activities by viewing the calendar on the Association website, candocanal.org/ .
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Protecting the canal since 1954: The association opposes Georgetown University’s plan to build a large boathouse in the park