Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
63 Trails
131 POIs
7 Peaks
4 Campsites
1 Picnic Site
6 Viewpoints
Description
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park includes land in the Shenandoah Valley in Jefferson County, West Virginia; Washington County, Maryland and Loudoun County, Virginia. Several historical museums now occupy restored 19th century buildings in the Lower Town Historic District of Harpers Ferry. Nearly half a million people visit the park each year. (In comparison, 15 million people visit Washington, DC, each year.) North of the park and across the Potomac from Harpers Ferry is the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. The canal, which operated from 1828 to 1924, provided a vital waterway link with areas up and downstream prior to and during the early years after the arrival of the railroad. Today, the canal towpath and park, which provide access to the Maryland Heights section of the Harpers Ferry N.H.P., can be accessed by foot from Harpers Ferry via a footbridge constructed by the National Park Service alongside tracks on the railroad bridge over the Potomac, or via car by traveling east from Harpers Ferry on U.S. Route 340 to access points near Sandy Hook, Maryland. Aside from the extensive historical interests of the park, recreational opportunities include fishing, boating, and whitewater rafting as well as hiking, with the Appalachian Trail passing right through the park. The park adjoins the Harpers Ferry Historic District, as well as two other National Register of Historic Places locations: St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church and the B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing.
Trails in the Hikepack map
- 11 (West Virginia)
- 50 (Maryland)
- ADT - Maryland - Seg 4
- Appalachian National Scenic Trail
- Appalachian Trail
- Appalachian Trail (MD)
- Appalachian Trail (VA)
- Appalachian Trail (WV)
- Bolivar Heights Trail
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail (Maryland)
- Combined Trail
- Horse Trail
- Jeanie Road
- Jefferson National Pike
- Jefferson Pike
- Loudoun Heights Trail
- Lower Town Trail
- Night Battle Trail
- Overlook Cliff Trail
- Potomac Street
- Rohrersville Road
- Stone Fort Trail
Attractions in the Hikepack map
- 4 Mile Campsite
- 7-Eleven
- Appalachian National Scenic Trail
- Blair
- Blue Ridge Acres
- Bolivar
- Buzzard Rock
- Camp Hill
- Clarion Inn Conference Center
- Elvan
- Engle
- Fort Duncan
- Garretts Mill
- Guide House Grill
- Halltown
- Halltown Post Office
- Harper House: The Mansion on the Hill
- Harpers Ferry
- Harpers Ferry Campground
- Harpers Ferry Civil War Battlefields KOA
- Harpers Ferry Post Office
- Harpers Ferry Train Station
- Huckleberry Hill
- Huckleberry Hill Hiker Biker Campsite
- Jefferson's Rock
- John Brown's Fort (Armory Firehouse)
- Keyes Ferry Acres
- Lambs Knoll
- Lock 31
- Lock 32
- Lock 33
- Lock 34
- Lock 35
- Lock 36
- Loudoun Heights
- Maryland Heights
- Mechanicsville
- Merriwether Lewis
- Millville
- Millville Post Office
- NPS Shuttle Bus Station
- Naval Battery
- Pine Hill Estates
- Pleasantville
- Pomona
- Potomac Grille
- Potomac Wayside
- Reedson
- River Access Parking
- Sandy Hook
- Silver Grove
- Split Rock
- Stone Fort
- Storer College
- Swiss Miss
- The Anvil Restaurant
- Tourist Information
- US 340 @ MD 67 (MD 67D Weverton)
- Visitors' Center
- Weverton
- Weverton Cliffs
- White Hall Tavern
- White Rock
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)
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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 ©Mark Fickett https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010-09-02-Harpers-Ferry-From-Maryland-Heights-Panorama-Crop.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
