Maryland's tallest free-falling waterfall, the 53-foot Muddy Creek Falls, anchors a loop trail through old-growth hemlocks some over 300 years old, in the state's far-western mountains.
Road trips · Maryland
Maryland road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Maryland — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
One of the most pristine and least crowded Civil War battlefields, with an 8.5-mile driving tour through rolling Sharpsburg farmland — quieter than Gettysburg and genuinely moving.
Twenty-two acres of whimsical sculpted hedges, including a famous fox-and-hounds hunt frozen mid-chase across the lawn, in the horse country north of Baltimore.
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.
A four-mile Wildlife Drive winds through tidal marsh holding one of the East Coast's densest concentrations of nesting bald eagles, in a place locals call the Everglades of the North.
Reachable only by boat from Crisfield, this remote Chesapeake island moves at a vanished pace across three tiny watermen's villages and is the birthplace of Maryland's ten-layer state cake.
Tee it up
Public golf you can book in Maryland.
Havre de Grace · $$$$ — Maryland's top public, ex-LPGA host
Plan the Maryland trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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