Cleveland to Baltimore road trip: 24 stops worth the detour

An Ernie Els course with a ruined-mill finishing hole.

Founded in 1772 by three Quaker milling brothers on the Patapsco River, this cobblestone Main Street of 200+ 18th/19th-century granite buildings has flooded catastrophically multiple times (2016, 2018) and rebuilt each time -- a mill town that refuses to quit, now full of galleries, cafes, and the oldest B&O Railroad station in the country a block away.

a cascade in the Catoctins

an easy forest loop to a pretty fall near Baltimore

a popular Appalachian Trail overlook

a boardwalk fall in Cuyahoga Valley National Park

a 65-ft falls and sandstone ledges

A US Open–qualifier course in the Frederick area.

Waterfalls, towpath & a scenic railroad

George Washington’s favorite spa, a state-park bathhouse in town

mossy sandstone cliffs and a sunset point

September 17, 1862 remains the single bloodiest day in American history -- over 22,000 casualties in about 12 hours around this small whitewashed Dunker meetinghouse. The battle's outcome gave Lincoln the opening to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. A quiet, reflective stop rather than a triumphant one.

Liddy served as project architect on this Pete Dye layout in northeast Ohio, a stout, well-bunkered test. Championship bones at public-course value.

rock outcrops above Camp David country