Name: Susquehanna State Park: Conowingo Dam
Start: 2024-11-30T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-30T13:00:00-05:00

Susquehanna State Park: Conowingo Dam & the Wildflower Trail

Parking is very limited this time of year. Please consider car pooling to this event.
To carpool:
Meet at Curtis Mill Park by 9:00 am.

We will also meet at the Conowingo Visitor Center
(4948 Conowingo Rd, Conowingo, MD) at 9:50 am immediately before the hike.

Or you can just meet us at the start of the trail:
2569 Shures Landing Road, Darlington, Maryland 21034

This outing starts at Maryland's Conowingo dam Greenway trail.
We’ll do two distinctly different sections from there.

The first is an out and back hike on the Lower Susquehanna Greenway Heritage Trail, it is a easy, flat, wide path along the river from the Conowingo Dam. This trail is 1 mile out and you may turn around at any point. We should see bald eagles, osprey, great blue heron, and maybe catch a sight of colorful migrating warblers. There should be plenty of vultures too.

At the end of the Greenway trail, you may want to join us on another 2 mile round-trip along the on a single-track (single file) trail that’s noted for its wildflowers. For planning purposes, this likely will be a slower walk and we’ll be sharing the trail with other groups who are out to admire the flowers and/or bird watch. We’ll hike to the bridge where Deer Creek meets the Susquehanna and turn-around (or sooner if the group desires). (The remainder of the trail, leading to the historic Rock Run Grist Mill, is severely eroded.)

Directions to trail:

To carpool:
Meet at Curtis Mill Park by 9:00 am.
Follow Cleveland Avenue to route 273.
Follow route 273 for 18 miles to route 1.
Make a left on route 1.
Travel 5 miles to Conowingo Dam.
Cross the dam at the Susquehanna River.
Travel .2 miles and make a right to meet at the Conowingo Visitors Center.
This is good for taking a quick restroom break.
We can then carpool down to the Greenway trail by the dam.

To get to the Greenway trail:
Rt. 1 south/west bound:
Cross the dam at the Susquehanna River.
Take the very first, quick, left onto Shuresville Rd.
Travel .6 miles and turn left onto Shures landing Road.
Travel .7 miles to the parking lot at the Susquehanna River.
2569 Shures Landing Road, Darlington, Maryland 21034

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Suggestions to make a full-day outing at the park:

Visit the historic Rock Run area, about a mile or so from the Deer Creek Picnic Area parking lot. https://dnr.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/central/Susquehanna/History-Susquehanna.aspx

At the Rock Run area, also search for the newly installed granite marker indicating the furthest spot Captain John Smith was able to navigate up the Susquehanna River. https://chesapeakeconservancy.org/what-we-do/explore/find-your-chesapeake/about-the-trail/trail-cross-markers/

Directions to Susquehanna State Park: Deer Creek Picnic Area from Wilmington area:
Susquehanna State Park
https://dnr.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/central/susquehanna.aspx

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