Free Topo Maps of Catoctin Mountain Park

Download free topo maps of Catoctin Mountain Park. Use the adjoining 7.5 minute quadrangle legend to locate the Maryland maps you need.

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  1. Northwest Topo Map: Waynesboro, PA
  2. North Topo Map: Iron Springs, PA
  3. Northeast Topo Map: Fairfield, PA
  4. West Topo Map: Smithsburg, MD
  5. Topo Map: Blue Ridge Summit, PA
  6. East Topo Map: Emmitsburg, MD
  7. Southwest Topo Map: Myersville, MD
  8. South Topo Map: Catoctin Furnace, MD
  9. Southeast Topo Map: Woodsboro, MD
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Catoctin Mountain Park

Catoctin Mountain Park was created during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidency as a New Deal Job Corp program established to help conquer the Great Depression during the 1930s. Catoctin was selected as non-arable land which could be transformed into a recreational area, thereby giving the unemployed an opportunity to work by reforesting the land. Historically this region has a rich cultural heritage, from its use by Native Americans creating stone implements to settlers clearing land for farming and seeking timber for making charcoal; and a later use by the moonshiners seeking places to hide their stills. The Catoctin Iron Furnace bears the remains of the earlier charcoal furnaces located nearby in Cunningham Falls State Park. This entire region of Maryland also contains many other National Parks for those planning longer stays in the region. Today Catoctin Mountain Park is used by recreational seekers, for hikers and biking, fly-fishing and during the winter for cross country skiing. The park contains twenty-five miles of trails, some leading to scenic views, camping, picnicking and for spotting wildlife. Scenic drives can be found, and the Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo are in close proximity to the Park. There is only one section in the Catoctin Mountains where the boundaries are closed to the public. These boundaries are the demarcation of the Presidential Retreat. Originally it was used during World War II by President Franklin, when his retreats in Hyde Park, NY and his yacht were proclaimed unsafe due to the danger from German U-boats in the Atlantic. Following his death the area was kept as a Presidential Retreat and is still used today. It is notable that after Roosevelt first visited the Retreat, he immediately renamed the camp "Shangri-La" which was the name of the popular novel Lost Horizon, written by James Hilton during the 1930s. At present this Presidential Retreat is widely renowned as Camp David.