Best places: Nature preserves in Emmitsburg, United States

👍👍 Great fun for for the kids. We came for the Annual Spring Festival and we had a good time. Lots of exhibits to look at. And educational to learn about our local environment.

Natural area around a water reservoir offering fishing, boat rentals, birdwatching & picnicking.

Rustic park building with kid-friendly educational exhibits & interactive programs about wildlife.

👍👍 This is a really interesting historical site with an amazing collection of pottery. The tour of the grounds and house was phenomenal. Lots of interesting artifacts to see and learn about. Definitely worth a trip.

Verdant park known for its native wildlife, charming walking trails & a cozy nature center.

Multifaceted green space with trails, pavilions, waterfront activities & an off-leash dog park.

18-acre center exploring the local ecosystem via a planetarium, nature exhibits & wooded trail.

👍👍 Absolutely wonderful! Great free programs, amazing summer camp, schools out programs, and they have a nature preschool now! Lots of resident animals that are excited to meet you. Over 200 acres and 3 miles of trails! Staff are friendly and helpful always. Also a great venue for weddings or events!

1,025 acres of open space with an interconnected trail system, ridgetop views & seasonal hunting.

Sizable park offering trails & a nature center with animals & environmental classes.

👍👍 Moderately challenging hike on hilly, rocky terrain. Kelly's Run Trail is about 3.8 miles long with a variety of terrain levels. Some beautiful views of the river from a paved path at one point, and a winding walk along a creek amongst surprisingly large boulders and rhododendron forest, several sma...

👍👍 We only went for the hiking trails, this time. Nice, easy, well maintained. Great picnic areas for after the hike.

👍👍 Had a peaceful hike on the Thaddeus Stevens trail. So beautiful. I literally only saw one piece of litter on the whole trail. I logged almost 7,000 steps on the "challenging" route that took is about 1 1/2hrs. The only sad part was no place to look out at the view at the top of the mountain.

👍👍 Located close to the Great Falls. This is a unique waterfall with mesmerizing views. If you like the outdoors, you're going to like it here. Hiking trails abound within within proximity of the water fall.

👍 Tucquan Glen has a lovely trail as well as a swimming area. The downside to the day we went was that the parking area was closed. The road surrounding the trail is not meant to be worked on, and you can be towed or fined. Once you get on to the trail, it’s pretty straight forward how to get to the m...

👍👍 My wife and I rode our bikes 16 miles here the other day! What a fabulous experience! The river on your right and rock cliffs on your left make it feel like you are in paradise! There are numerous lovely waterfalls! We saw 5-6 bald eagles, and a family of osprey. We munched on fresh blackberrie...

👍👍 Scenic, beautiful, and worth the trek. Like others noted, Google Maps tries to take you in via Scuba Drive, which is a private, blocked road. The owners put up a sign noting to go to Koser Park, in Bainbridge... the path entrance that I used. The cliffs are accessible as part of the Northwest Lancas...

22-acre park with a pondside deck, hiking areas & old lime kilns, plus a nature center with animals.

👍👍 Great place to run and just a few minutes away from I-83. If you go north from here, you’ll cross into Pennsylvania in just under 7 miles. It’s a slight uphill (about a 1% grade) all the way to New Freedom (a town that’s about a mile north of the MD-PA border) and then goes slightly downhill to York...

Waterside nature preserve offering boating & shore fishing, plus hiking & birdwatching.