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Catoctin Mountain traverses Frederick County, Maryland and extends into northern Loudoun County, Virginia.It rises to its greatest elevation of 1,900 feet (580 m) above sea level just southwest of Cunningham Falls State Park [3] and is transected by gaps at Braddock Heights (Fairview Pass), Point of Rocks on the Potomac River and Clarke's Gap west of Leesburg, as well as several other unnamed ...
Catoctin Mountain Park is a park located in part of the Monocacy Valley and Catoctin Mountain ridge−range that forms the northeastern rampart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the Appalachian Mountains System.
US 15 has several official designations throughout its course in Maryland. The U.S. Highway is known as Catoctin Mountain Highway from the Virginia state line at Point of Rocks north to US 340 near Jefferson and from MD 26 in Frederick north to the Pennsylvania state line near Emmitsburg.
Feb. 26—Catoctin Mountain Park and wooded areas in northern Frederick County are likely home to animals once thought to be extinct in the state: fishers. Fishers (Pekania pennanti) are part of ...
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway is a National Scenic Byway that runs from Monticello, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with the Maryland portion running from Point of Rocks to Emmitsburg, passing through the Catoctin Mountain area. [1] [2] The byway was formerly known as the Catoctin Mountain Scenic Byway. [3]
Braddock Heights is located at an elevation of 950 feet (290 m) atop Braddock Mountain (as Catoctin Mountain is locally known) near the pass at Braddock Springs, so named after British General Edward Braddock and Lt. Colonel George Washington's use of the mountain pass on their way to Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War on April 29, 1755.
Trout Run is a property in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, Maryland, that was visited on several occasions by Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower Originally called Catoctin Lodge, it is located about 4 mi (6.4 km) away from the presidential retreat at Camp David and was established by one of Hoover's ...
Off Park Central Rd. in Catoctin Mountain Park 39°38′31″N 77°26′55″W / 39.6419°N 77.4486°W / 39.6419; -77.4486 ( Camp Misty Mount Historic Thurmont