MNPS Field Trip: Oaks, and Other Plants, Identification Challenge

Sponsoring Organizations: Calvert County Natural Resources Division

General Description: Come explore a park, new for MNPS field trips, to identify the trees, including Oaks and other plants. If time allows, we'll end up along a boardwalk to id the plants of a brackish & freshwater marsh.

Leaders: Karyn Molines

Directions: Meet at the picnic pavilion at the end of the field by the Patuxent Hall (aka Tom Wisner Hall)

From Washington's Capital Beltway (I-95) Take ROUTE 4 South into Calvert County and follow the directions below.

From the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) Take ROUTE 301 South to ROUTE 4 South and follow the directions below.

• At Huntingtown, turn RIGHT onto OLD TOWN ROAD (Rt. 524).
• Proceed to Bowen's Grocery Store and turn RIGHT on HUNTINGTOWN ROAD.
• At the 4-way stop sign intersection, continue STRAIGHT and you will be on KING'S LANDING ROAD. The road dead ends in the park.

Registration is requested, by phone through Battle Creek Cypress Swamp, or online via MNPS