Though you have probably been on I-70 heading west and decided to continue on I-70 into Pennsylvania, or take I-68 west towards Cumberland, you might not have known that the intersection of those two roads, or actually just before that intersection if you are westbound, is sitated in the thinnest part of Maryland. In fact, that isn’t just the thinnest part of Maryland, it’s the thinnest part of any state anywhere.
In the town of Hancock Maryland there are only 1.7 miles between the edge of the Potomac and the Pennsylvania border. Because I know there are a few Marylandophiles here who will call me out on this, I will make the caveat now that I am not including the distance of the river itself as the true border is on the south side of the river.
This week Maryland Daily Photo goes on assignment to take you on a hike of all 1.7 miles of the thinnest part of Maryland by walking up the appropriately named Pennsylvania Ave. Tomorrow we’ll start at the river. (also, I know you all are sick of seeing posts…sign posts, lamps posts, foul pole posts, etc. I promise this is the last one)
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1 shelly // Apr 7, 2008 at 10:34 AM
maybe you should start marylanddailyposts.com.
side project.
also… how ’bout dem O’s?!?
2 Jess Sedgewick // Apr 7, 2008 at 10:55 AM
I was going to post a request on your wish list to see a photo from the part of Maryland that drains into the Mississippi rather than the Chesapeake. Is this far enough west to qualify? I think it might be.
3 Chris // Apr 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM
I once read in a C&O canal companion book that Hancock has the crime rate of a town four times its size.
I once got a good stern talking to by the cops in Hancock for camping in the park along the canal instead of in a designated camping area. I had two hot college chicks with me so they didn’t make us move.
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