Volunteering to help the park: A work crew installs a bench near Great Falls in 2016.
Supporting park projects: Catoctin Aqueduct after collapse in 1973
Supporting park projects: Catoctin Aqueduct after restoration effort in 2011
Exploring history and nature: Sideling Hill Creek Aqueduct as viewed from the Western Maryland Rail Trail.
Protecting the canal since 1954: The association opposes Georgetown University’s plan to build a large boathouse in the park
Protecting the canal since 1954: The association opposes Georgetown University’s plan to build a large boathouse in the park
Exploring history and nature: Hikers gather at Fifteen Mile Creek Aqueduct in 2018.
Protecting the canal since 1954: Justice Douglas and eight others pause during their famous hike, which publicized the canal in 1954
Exploring history and nature: Ranger provides interpretation for hikers at Seneca Stone Cutting Mill in 2020.
Exploring history and nature: Hikers marvel at a large specimen during a tree identification walk in 2012
Volunteering to help the park: Association volunteer attaches plaque to newly installed bench in 2018.
Exploring history and nature: Association members participate in the last day of the 2009 Thru Hike at Great Falls
Volunteering to help the park: Association member helps install an identification sign at Landers in 2011
Exploring history and nature: Hikers gather at Dam 5 in 2019.
Protecting the canal since 1954: Justice Douglas and others rally against replacing the canal with a highway.
Volunteering to help the park: Association members repaint picnic tables at Swains Lock
Volunteering to help the park: Association volunteers assemble picnic table in 2018.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock 13, one the of the Seven Locks, 14 to 8, Montgomery County Maryland.
The lock was reportedly rebuilt in 1871-72 due to leaning walls.
The lock house was originally a stone one serving locks 12 through 14, but the other two locks received wooden frame ones later. Both of those were destroyed due to deterioration after 1939, and the stone one here was demolished due to construction of the Capital Beltway.
Note the fencing that denotes that portion of the lower canal that was utilized to contain the Potomac Interceptor sewage spill. Remediation continuesChesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock 13, one the of Seven Locks, 14 to 8, Montgomery County Maryland, and Capital Beltway bridge.
The lock was reportedly rebuilt in 1871-72 due to leaning walls.
The lock house was originally a stone one serving locks 12 through 14, but The other two locks received wooden frame ones later. Both of those were destroyed due to deterioration after 1939, and the stoned one here was demolished due to construction of the Capital Beltway.
The fishing dog of the C&O Canal once lived at lock 14 when lockkeeper Speaker and his wife lived there.