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Calvert Cliffs State Park

A hidden gem in Maryland

A 1.8-mile woodland trail leads to a Chesapeake beach where you can sift the sand for 10-to-20-million-year-old shark teeth and Miocene fossils, on southern Maryland's western shore.

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