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 29, in Lander, Frederick County Maryland. Also known as the Catoctin Lock, constructed of granite and flint. The lock and the bypass flume adjacent to it once had Bridges over it, and now have a modern pedestrian branch.
This lock was one extended by using stone-filled timber cribs on the upper end to allow the passage of two boats at once.
The one and a half story brick lockhouse remains on site, and was lived in by the last lock tender, L H "Bugs" Cross , until 1962.
Historic marker about the life of a lock keeper at Lock 29 on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Catoctin lock, Lander Maryland
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Lock 29, in Lander, Frederick County Maryland. Also known as the Catoctin Lock, constructed of granite and flint. The lock and the bypass flume adjacent to it once had Bridges over it, and now have a modern pedestrian branch.
This lock was one extended by using stone-filled timber cribs on the upper end to allow the passage of two boats at once.
The one and a half story brick lockhouse remains on site, and was lived in by the last lock tender, L H "Bugs" Cross , until 1962.