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Deep Creek Lake State Park
Garrett County, Maryland, USAIUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)Location Garrett County, Maryland, USA Coordinates 39°31′30″N 79°18′18″W / 39.525°N 79.305°WCoordinates: 39°31′30″N 79°18′18″W / 39.525°N 79.305°W Area 1,818 acres (7.36 km²) Governing body Maryland Department of Natural Resources Deep Creek Lake State Park is a popular vacation area in Garrett County, Maryland, USA. It surrounds a reservoir that was created by the construction of the Deep Creek Dam in 1923 by the Pennsylvania Electric Company on a tributary of the Youghiogheny River. The lake was purchased by the state of Maryland in 2000 and is used for boating, water skiing, wakeboarding, and fishing. There is a state park that borders the lake, where black bears are occasionally seen by visitors. Deep Creek Lake is about 15 miles (25 km) from Interstate 68 on U.S. Route 219.
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Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center
The Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center is the park's environmental center, and contains interpretive exhibits about the area's natural, cultural and local history. Naturalists, rangers and volunteers give daily educational programs about nature and the environment. Exhibits at the 6,000 sq ft (560 m2) facility include local plants and wildlife, Deep Creek Lake and its watershed, conservation issues and local coal and logging industrial activities.
The center is operated by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
See also
- Deep Creek Lake
- History of Deep Creek Lake, Maryland
References
External links
- Maryland Park Service Deep Creek Lake
- Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center
- Deep Creek Lake Chamber of Commerce
- Deep Creek Blog
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Deep Creek Lake
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Maryland Department of Natural Resources (web): Maryland Park Service (web) and Maryland Forest ServiceWaters of Maryland Bays/Estuaries Assawoman • Chesapeake • Chincoteague • Eastern • Fishing • Herring • Isle of Wight • Mallows • Newport • Pocomoke • Sinepuxent • TangierRivers Anacostia • Annemessex (Big) • Annemessex (Little) • Back • Bird • Blackwater • Blackwater (Little) • Bohemia • Bush • Casselman • Chester • Chicamacomico • Choptank • Choptank (Little) • Christina River • Corsica • Elk • Front • Gunpowder • Hawlings • Jones Falls • Magothy • Magothy (Little) • Manokin • Middle • Miles • Monocacy • Monocacy (Little) • Nanticoke • North East • Patapsco • Patuxent • Pocomoke • Port Tobacco • Potomac • Rhode • St. Martin • St. Marys • Sassafras • Savage • Severn • South • Susquehanna • Transquaking • Tred Avon • Warwick • West • Wicomico (Potomac) • Wicomico • Wye • Wye East • YoughioghenyCreeks/Runs/Streams Antietam • Alloway • Ballenger • Bear (Patapsco) • Bear (Sideling Hill) • Bear (Youghiogheny) • Bennett • Big Pipe • Bodkin • Bread and Cheese • Broad (Choptank) • Broad (Potomac) • Broad (Susquehanna) • Broad Run • Budds • Cabin John • Carroll • Catoctin • Catoctin (Little) • Chicamuxen • Conococheague • Conococheague (Little) • Conowingo • Cuckold • Curtis • Deep Run • Deer • Dividing • Double Pipe • Dry Seneca • Dueling • Dundee • Evitts • Fifteenmile • Fishing • Flintstone • Frog Mortar • Furnace • Georges • Great Seneca • Greys • Gwynns Falls • Harris • Henson • Herring Run • Honga • Indian (Anacostia) • Indian (Patuxent) • Israel • Laurel Run • Licking • Linganore • Little Falls Branch • Little Pipe • Little Seneca • Lyons • Main • Marley • Marsh • Marshyhope • Mattawoman • Meekins • Middle • Minnehaha Branch • Moores Run • Muddy Branch • Nanjemoy • Nassawango • Northeast Branch Anacostia River • Northwest Branch Anacostia River • Octoraro • Owens • Oxon • Paint Branch • Parsons • Piney • Piscataway • Pomonkey • Rock (Potomac) • Rock Run • Rockburn Branch • Romney • St. Leonard • Saltpeter • Sams Creek • Sellman • Seneca (Middle) • Seneca (Potomac) • Sideling Hill • Slaughter • Sligo • Stony • Swanson • Toms • Tonoloway • Town (Patuxent) • Town (Potomac) • Town (Tred Avon) • Trappe • Tuckahoe • Turville • Tuscarora (Monocacy) • Tuscarora (Potomac) • Tuscarora (Little) • Watts Branch • Wills • Winters RunLakes Artemesia • Centennial • Deep Creek • Elkhorn • Bernard Frank • Jennings Randolph • Kittamaqundi • Little Seneca • Needwood • Roland • YoughioghenyReservoirs Nature centers in Maryland Baltimore city Carrie Murray · Cylburn ArboretumBaltimore County Irvine · Marshy Point · Oregon Ridge · Sparks Bank Nature Center at Gunpowder Falls State Park · Cromwell Valley ParkCalvert County Carroll County Cecil County Fair HillFrederick County Fountain Rock ParkGarrett County Deep Creek Lake State ParkHarford County Eden MillHoward County Howard County ConservancyMontgomery County Black Hill Visitors Center · Brookside Gardens · Croydon Creek · Discovery Creek Children's Museum of Washington · Locust Grove · Maydale · Meadowside · Woodend Sanctuary - Audubon Naturalist SocietyPrince George's County Clearwater · Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary · Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary Visitor Center · Mt. Rainier · Patuxent Research Refuge National Wildlife Visitor Center · WatkinsSt. Mary's County Talbot County Phillips Wharf Environmental Center · Pickering Creek Audubon CenterCategories:- IUCN Category V
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- Reservoirs in Maryland
- Nature centers in Maryland
- Museums in Garrett County, Maryland
- Natural history museums in Maryland
- Parks in Garrett County, Maryland
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