Catoctin Mountain


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Ca·toc·tin Mountain

 (kə-tŏk′tĭn)
A mountain, 573 m (1,880 ft) high, of northern Maryland extending from the Pennsylvania border south to Virginia and constituting the easternmost section of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Camp David is located near the summit.
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While acknowledging that leaving painted rocks for others to find is a fun activity, staff at Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland respectfully reminded visitors that doing so violated the national park site's leave-no-trace policy.
Among the hikes and highlights are Tuckahoe State Park and Adkins Arboretum: lady's slipper orchids, Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway Trail: Conowingo Dam and American shad, Great Falls Tavern Walk and the Billy Goat Trail: mayflies, Catoctin Mountain Park: eastern hemlocks and hemlock wooly adelgids, and Swallow Falls State Park: black bears in Maryland.
Almost six decades on, Szesze has turned a former Christmas tree farm - tucked away in the Catoctin Mountain ridge of Maryland - into one of the richest nurseries for carnivorous plants in the country.
The cars went down Wisconsin Avenue in Washington at seventy-five [121 km/h] and pulled to a stop in front of Blair House eighty minutes after leaving the Catoctin Mountain cabin.
The set, which portrays the wooded grounds of the Presidential country residence in Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland, features video screens against its back wall.
The sites studied in the report include Antietam National Battlefield, Assateague Island National Seashore, Catoctin Mountain Park, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Greenbelt Park, and Hampton National Historic Site.
G8 leaders will hold their main discussions on Europe's fiscal plight Saturday at Camp David's rustic collection of cabins on the wooded Catoctin Mountain in Maryland, outside Washington.
The company anticipates that by the end of 2011 that Hagerstown's 4G LTE footprints will expand to serve residents who live in the surrounding areas of Hagerstown including south to Myersville, west to Clear Spring, north into Pennsylvania and east to Catoctin Mountain
Tucked away in the picturesque Catoctin Mountain Park in Western Maryland, The League for People with Disabilities has run a summer camp program for over 70 years.
Administrators and researchers from the USDA and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service met with growers and extension agents at Catoctin Mountain Orchard in Thurmont, Md., in early September to visit several peach orchards and see the scope of the problem first hand.
This past year, government sharpshooters were paid to kill hundreds of deer in the 5,770-acre Catoctin Mountain National Park, surrounding the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md.