Travel, Recreation and Culture

No matter the designation, there’s plenty of places to get outside in the watershed

Visions of what’s at stake in the restoration effort

Lighted boat parades, crab basket trees and more!

Original inhabitants of the Chesapeake Bay watershed remembered through their ancestral lands

A guided hike is held as part of the annual Chesapeake Watershed Forum at Bacon Ridge Natural Area in Crownsville, Md., on Nov. 2, 2021. Earl "Bud" Reaves, a forester with Anne Arundel County, helped point out unique features of the biodiversity and landscape of Bacon Ridge. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

Hispanic leaders working within the Chesapeake Bay region are diversifying the environmental industry

The 38-mile-long Passage Creek weaves in and out of a sheltered part of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

The Bohemia River meanders through Md. and Del. before flowing to the Elk River.

Muddy Creek meets the Susquehanna River north of the Conowingo Dam, shortly before it flows into the Chesapeake Bay.