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SCHEDULE Reservations Area Info.
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Hi ! Welcome to Antietam
Creek Canoe . 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, and teach
paddling In the Antietam Creek and Seneca Creek areas of the Potomac. 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
Potomac Area Watershed.
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 What's Happening NOW:
Work in progress. From now through the Spring We'll be clearing and
cleaning up after 10 years of absentee operation. With luck by Summer we'll be
living in The Power Plant most of the time. We will be running Antietam and
Seneca canoe and kayak trips 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 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 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. Scheduled trips and classes are listed here: For the 2009 SEASON. We have new and almost new 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 Kensington Before 9am and after 9pm.
] is 301 942 1793. Our phone at the Mill for Spring 2009 is 240 447 0444 cell - please don't
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