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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 on the creek, and teach
paddling. 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 Area Watershed. We need 2.6± for lower section and 3.2± for upper section] [Today's Weather Information] [Today's WASH D.C. Tide chart [we lead exciting doable trips in tidal D.C. as well as Little Falls to Great falls and Seneca Creek.. bring your camera] NOTE ! CREEK is RUNNING at about 2.82 Today, 7/03 [about 250 cfs] . Should be 2.8 at w/e. Strainer below Manor Church Bridge 4 foot slot in center. Unsteady Strainers about 5-6 minutes below Keedysville Bridge. Many trees down; passable on left side with low skill and difficulty. These could become dangerous with higher water or if winds and current push stuff around. Be alert if you run that section & be careful out there. 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 plain fiddle around. [here's how you contact us] What's Happening NOW: Work in progress. From now through Summer We will clearing and cleaning up after 10 years of absentee operation. With luck by 09/08 we'll be living in The Power Plant most of the time. We will be running trips all summer, [check the planed schedule] though many weekends are taken up with Instructor classes and off-site trips for Canoe Kayak and Paddle Co. [CKAPCO] . May and up through mid June are pretty jammed-up. Sample of available Antietam Creek trips, [just click here] We run [by appointment and reservation] daily rentals 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. 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 lower section is just at the left arch in the picture [click it for full size]. Of note, 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 2008 SEASON. We have new and almost new Mad River Explorer Canoes, solo Dagger Zydaco 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 a "huger" map, directions and details. 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 2008 is 240 447 0444 cell - please don't
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