South Mountain State Park

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Description

South Mountain State Park is a public recreation area that runs for nearly the entire length of South Mountain through Washington and Frederick counties in Maryland. The state park is contiguous with several other national, state and local parks on the mountain, including the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Gathland State Park, Washington Monument State Park, Greenbrier State Park and Pen Mar County Park (Washington County). Maryland's 40-mile (64 km) section of the Appalachian Trail traverses the length of the park, offering access to scenic overlooks that include High Rock, Black Rock, Annapolis Rock, White Rock, and Waverton Cliffs. The park also contains part of the South Mountain Battlefield. Camping is permitted at shelters and backpackers campgrounds off the AT. The park also has two hunting areas: Black Rock Hunting Lands and Lambs Knoll Hunting Lands.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • 50 (Maryland)
  • ADT - Maryland - Seg 4
  • Appalachian National Scenic Trail
  • Appalachian Trail (MD)
  • Appalachian Trail (PA)
  • Bartmans Hill Trail
  • Bear Spring Cabin Trail
  • Big Red Trail
  • Bloody Lane
  • Bloody Lane Trail
  • Blue Mountain Road
  • Burnside Bridge
  • Camp Loop Trail
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail (Maryland)
  • Combined Trail
  • Copperhead Trail
  • Cornfield Trail
  • Final Attack Trail
  • Green Trail
  • Horse Trail
  • Jefferson National Pike
  • Jefferson Pike
  • NC 13th Infantry Memorial Trail
  • Old Burnside Bridge Road
  • Old Road
  • Old Trolley Lane
  • Overlook Cliff Trail
  • Park Service Trail
  • Rock Oak Fire Trial
  • Rohrersville Road
  • Roulette Lane
  • Snelling FIre Trail
  • Stone Fort Trail
  • Thurston Griggs Trail
  • Union Advance Trail
  • Water Tank Trail
  • White Rocks Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • 057
  • Annapolis Rock
  • Annapolis Rock Camping
  • Annapolis Rock Spring
  • Antietam
  • Antietam Creek Aqueduct
  • Antietam Creek Campsite
  • Antietam National Battlefield Visitors Center
  • Appletown
  • Augusta
  • Bagtown
  • Battleview Market
  • Bear Spring Cabin
  • Black Rock
  • Blacks Glen
  • Blank
  • Blue Mountain
  • Brownsville
  • Brownsville Post Office
  • Buhrman
  • Burkittsville
  • Burkittsville Post Office
  • Burnside Acres
  • Burnside Bridge
  • Buzzard Knob
  • Caretaker
  • Chestnut Grove
  • Civil War Medical Museum
  • Clevelandville
  • Crampton Gap Camping Sites
  • Crampton Gap Shelter
  • Dahlgren Backpack Camping Area
  • Dargan
  • Dargan Bend
  • Dargan Quarry
  • Devils Racecourse Shelter;Devil's Racecource Shelter
  • Ed Garvey Shelter
  • Edgemont
  • Eldridge
  • Ensign Cowall Shelter
  • Fairmount
  • Flickersville
  • Forge Hill Estates
  • Fort Duncan
  • Frostown
  • Gapland
  • Gapland Post Office
  • Garretts Mill
  • Gathland Picnic Shelter
  • Gathland State Park Museum
  • Georgians Overlook
  • Greenbrier
  • Group Site 1
  • Group Site 2
  • Group Site 3
  • Guide House Grill
  • Harpers Ferry Campground
  • Hauser Ridge
  • Hawks Hill
  • High Rock
  • Highland Farms
  • Highland Woods
  • Horse Shoe Bend
  • Huckleberry Hill
  • Huckleberry Hill Hiker Biker Campsite
  • Jugtown
  • Lamb Knolls
  • Lambs Knoll
  • Lens Rambles
  • Lock 31
  • Lock 32
  • Lock 33
  • Lock 34
  • Lock 35
  • Lock 36
  • Lock 37
  • Locust Valley
  • Lynch Estates
  • MARC Bathhouse
  • MARC Cabins 1 & 2
  • MARC Cabins 11 & 12
  • MARC Cabins 13 & 14
  • MARC Cabins 15 & 16
  • MARC Cabins 17 & 18
  • MARC Cabins 19 & 20
  • MARC Cabins 3 & 4
  • MARC Cabins 5 & 6
  • MARC Cabins 7 & 8
  • MARC Cabins 9 & 10
  • MARC Cedar Lodge Parking
  • MARC Nature Center/White Pine Parking
  • MARC Oak Lodge Parking
  • MARC Parking
  • MARC Pool Parking
  • MARC Walnut Lodge Parking
  • MARC White Pine Handicapped Parking
  • MARC White Pine Parking
  • Maryland Heights
  • Monument Knob
  • Mount Briar
  • Mount Lena
  • Mountain Lock Recreation Area Parking
  • Mousetown
  • Naval Battery
  • Nicodemus Heights
  • North Lynch Estates
  • Observation Tower
  • Old Rocky Run Shelter
  • Park Hall
  • Park Hall Estates
  • Pen Mar
  • Pen Mar Post Office (historical)
  • Pine Hill Estates
  • Pine Knob
  • Pine Knob Shelter
  • Pleasant Valley
  • Pleasant Walk
  • Pleasantville
  • Pogo Memorial Campground
  • Pondsville
  • Porterstown
  • Potomac Vistas
  • Pry House Field Hospital Museum
  • Quirauk Mountain
  • Raven Rock
  • Red Hill
  • Rocky Run Shelter
  • Roelkeys Knoll
  • Rohrersville
  • Rohrersville Post Office
  • Rohrersville Station
  • Samples Manor
  • San Mar
  • Sandy Hook
  • Sharpsburg
  • Sharpsburg Post Office
  • South Mountain Inn
  • South Mountain Restrooms
  • South Mountain Welcome Center
  • Stone Fort
  • Summers
  • Trego
  • US 340 @ MD 67 (MD 67D Weverton)
  • Water Acres
  • Waterloo
  • Weverton
  • Weverton Cliffs
  • Wolfsville Crossing
  • Wolfsville Road Trailhead
  • Woodland Way
  • Yarrowsburg
  • Zittlestown

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Patorjk https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annapolis_rocks_overlook.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).