Jonas Green Park is a former Maryland state park now owned and operated by Anne Arundel County. Located on the Severn River in Annapolis at 1990 Governor Ritchie Highway, at the end of the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail, it was established on June 6, 2009, and offers a visitors center, read more

North Point State Park is a Maryland state park located on Chesapeake Bay in Edgemere. Part of the park’s 1,337 acres (541 ha) includes the grounds of Bay Shore Park (1906-1947), which was once one of the state’s premiere amusement parks. The state park offers beach swimming and wading, fishing, read more

Dismal Swamp State Park is a North Carolina state park in Camden County, North Carolina in the United States. The park was created as a state natural area in 1974 with the help of The Nature Conservancy, and on July 28, 2007 the NC General Assembly re-designated it as a read more

Hart-Miller Island State Park is an island state park in Maryland. It is located in the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of Middle River. The park is accessible only by boat and features a 3,000-foot (910 m) sandy beach. The area—at the time comprising three islands—Hart, Miller, and Pleasure—with a read more

Sandy Point State Park is a Maryland state park located at Sandy Point, at the western end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Anne Arundel County. The park is at the site of a former ferry landing that served the Chesapeake Bay Ferry System on its run across the bay read more

Gunpowder Falls State Park is a 15,000-acre (6,100 ha) Maryland state park comprising several non-contiguous recreational areas in northeastern Baltimore County and western Harford County. It is primarily made up of the stream valleys of the Big and Little Gunpowder Falls and the Gunpowder River. The park has over 100 read more

Matapeake State Park is a state park managed by Queen Anne’s County located in Matapeake, Kent Island, Maryland. The park is the site of a former ferry landing that served the state-owned Chesapeake Bay Ferry System before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened. Today, the pier that once served the ferry read more

Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,050 acres (5,280 ha) in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Ricketts Glen is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls along Kitchen Creek, which flows down the Allegheny read more

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park is a Maryland state park dedicated to the life and work of abolitionist and Underground Railroad activist Harriet Tubman.The park is on Route 335 near Church Creek in Dorchester County, adjacent to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. The park, which was created in 2007 through read more

Palmer State Park is a largely undeveloped Maryland state park located in Harford County. The parklands include a stretch of Deer Creek and historic industrial sites including remnants of the Husband Flint Mill and Deer Creek Iron Works. The heavily forested area is open to canoeing, fishing, and hiking although read more