Directions & Maps

How To Get There
Shaeffer Farm:
  • 270 North
  • Rt.118 West (towards Germantown)
  • Right after @ 2 miles on Rt.117 (Clopper Rd.)
  • immediate Left on Shaeffer Rd.
  • Left on small dirt road @1 mile (shares an entrance with a ranch)
Shaeffer Farm & Clopper Lake Map
Clopper Lake:
  • 270 North
  • Exit onto Quince Orchard / Clopper, Westbound (should end up on Clopper)
  • Left into Seneca Creek State Park (@ 2 miles)
  • Right at T onto perimeter road,
  • Left into 1st lot
Black Hills:
  • 270 North
  • Exit 16 Father Hurley Blvd East (to right)
  • Left on 355 to go North
  • Left on West Old Baltimore Road
  • Left into park at @ 1.5 miles
  • Follow road to parking lot #5
Black Hills Map
Gambrill:
  • 270 North to Frederick
  • Rt.15 North
  • Rt.40 West through town and up a hill (stay on 40, not 40A)
  • Right onto Gambrill Park Rd.
  • Right into 1st lot (up the hill quite a way)
Gambrill & Watershed Large Map
Zoomed Map
Catoctin Watershed:
  • Follow directions to Gambrill
  • Pass parking lot and continue on Gambrill Park Rd.
  • Right on Hamburg (several miles)
  • Park at pull-over by trailhead (couple hundred yards on Right)
Avalon (Pavillions):
  • 95 North
  • 195 East
  • Rt.1 South
  • Right onto South Rd. (very soon, maybe 1st light)
  • First Left into park
  • Left at T - continue on to parking lot on Right
Avalon Area of Patapsco Map
Avalon (Park N Ride):
  • 95 North
  • 195 / 166 West
  • Drive right into Park N Ride
Fountain Head:
  • Many Many ways to Rt.123, my faves:
    • Burke Lake Rd from Braddock Rd., or
    • Fairfax County Parkway South
  • Rt.123 South
  • Right onto Henderson Rd. (very twisty)
  • Left onto Hampton Rd. (even more twisty)
  • Right into park
  • continue on to parking lot on Right
Fountain Head Map (at site of Sandy Run Rec center)
SugarLoaf (only open weekdays in the summer):
  • 270 North (or whatever)
  • 109 West
  • Right on Comus at Comus Inn
  • Park at base of Sugarloaf in tiny lot
Sugarloaf Map

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