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.
It’s located on Maryland soil . . .Walking through the “Paw Paw Tunnel” near Paw Paw, West Virginia, feels like stepping straight into the early days of the C&O Canal. Although most visitors reach it from Paw Paw, the tunnel is actually just across the state line in western Maryland. Stretching 3,118 feet through Tunnel Hill, it was built to avoid about six miles of twisting canal route around the sharp Paw Paw Bends of the Potomac River. Work began in 1836 and was expected to take only two years, but problems with money, difficult rock, work stoppages, and labor disputes stretched construction out for 14 years. It finally opened in October 1850 and cost more than $600,000. The inside was lined with more than six million bricks, making the scale of the project even more impressive. Today you can walk the old towpath straight through the dark tunnel, but you’ll definitely want a flashlight. Along the way, look for old rope marks, rub rails, weep holes, and brass markers placed every 100 feet. Dripping water, deep echoes, and the occasional bat only add to the eerie feel of this one-of-a-kind historic walk.
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