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SCHEDULE Reservations Area Info.
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Hi !
Gentle folks, days are getting longer! Welcome to Antietam
Creek Canoe. We'll be busy for the next few months
cutting wood and getting 'lot's to do' ready for 2012.. For
those new here; We are a unique Maryland Canoe, Kayak
& Tube, Livery in an Old Power Plant up here
on historic Antietam Creek.
We run trips, rent canoes kayaks and tubes, teach paddling In the Antietam
Creek and Seneca Creek areas of the Potomac and generally have a nice time. It's as fun and exciting up here as
it is historic and beautiful.
Bring the Kids & the dog! [USGS
daily water
level link
for Antietam Creek, For
Entire Potomac Watershed.
Dam is finished with just dressing up
the banks, boat put ins etc. to follow. The whole thing looks great. Still No parking in DBB Park,
Construction on the banks will be going on until ?? They do have a porta potty. You
can park up on our hill if we don't have an "event" planned [which we don't just
now]. .
Antietam Creek
[history link], the best 22 miles of it, is
within an hour of Washington and Baltimore
and we are right in the middle at mile post 10....
Kayak, canoe, tube, fish,
or just 2010 - What's Happening NOW:
Work in progress. We've been local to Rockville/Kensington for the past 15 years
and commuting to Antietam for trips etc..... May 1 we moved to the Boonsboro
area.
We're renting temp until the mill is livable then move in with the occupancy permit
still wet. From now on we'll be clearing and cleaning up. With luck by Summer we'll be
living in The Power Plant most of the time....and We will be running Antietam and
Seneca canoe and kayak trips and classes Sample of available Antietam Creek trips, [just click here] We run [by appointment and reservation] daily rentals, shuttles and trips from Devil's Backbone through Antietam Battlefield to Burnside Bridge and to the Potomac. We give instruction on River Safety, and run American Canoe Association [ACA] certification and skill courses as well as guided trips: canoe, kayak, tube. We leave Antietam Creek on request and run trips/classes on Washington DC's waterfront, Seneca Creek [Violette's Lock & Riley's Lock Loops] Potomac Taylor's/Snyder's to Brunswick or venue of your choice. All services are initiated by email or phone appointment & confirmed by deposit. Livery details here
This 1833 Charles Wilson / Delamere Bridge [variously called Booth's Mill Bridge, Devil's Backbone Bridge] is in our front yard and about 30 feet from our parking lot. Our put-in for the Creek's lower section is just at the left arch in the picture [click it for full size]. This is the bridge that Stonewall Jackson crossed en route to capture Harper's Ferry in 1862. Lots and lots of history up here. http://bridges.marylandmemories.org/boothsMill.html Scheduled trips and classes are listed here: For the 2011 SEASON. We have new and almost new 16 and 14 foot Mad River Explorer Canoes, solo Dagger Zydeco kayaks, odds and ends and a SHUTTLE BUS, a real honest to goodness magic school bus.!!!!! with new paint ....it can't be yellow. [Still not legal for the road] livery details are here
We are located near Boonsboro Maryland in the (work in process) 1st hydro-electric power plant in Washington County, at Devil's Backbone, where MD rt. 68 crosses the Creek. 19005 Lappans Road Boonsboro, MD 21713. Come on up, or down if that makes more sense...... and bring oatmeal cookies. It's a fun place, a pretty place with lots of history ; lots to do and see.......Click here for a map link or go to Area Info. for directions and more detail. Send us an email if you
have questions, or suggestions - we're at paddle@antietamcreek.com
Our hard line in Cool Hollow Before 9am and after 9pm.
is 301 302 7534. Our phone at the Mill for Spring 2011 is 240 447 0444 cell - please don't
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