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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal–Calithea Trail, 4 sights is a 5.1-mile out-and-back in Blockhouse Point Conservation Park near Rive Gauche Estates, MD. The route reaches Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It climbs 446 ft. It scores 3/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi177 – 394 ft5.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 39.06781, -77.31345
Nearest town Rive Gauche Estates, MD

Directions

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal–Calithea Trail, 4 sights

5.1 mi · ▲ 446 ft · 1 hr 55 min

Elevation 176–393 ft

Out & Back · Blockhouse Point Conservation Park

Trailhead: 39.06781, -77.31345

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:56 AM · sunset 7:11 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading S.
  2. 0.3 miTurn left onto Calithea Trail, heading S.
  3. 0.1 miSharp left onto Blockhouse Trail, heading N.
  4. 0.3 miBear right onto Turkey Fan Trail, heading NE.
  5. 0.1 miTurn left onto Upland Woods Trail, heading NE.
  6. 0.1 miSharp right onto Old South River Road Trail, heading NE.
  7. 0.3 miBear right onto Muddy Branch Greenway Trail, heading SE.
  8. 0.8 miTurn right, heading S.
  9. 150 ftPass Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
  10. 0.2 miReach Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  11. 1.4 miBear left onto Upland Woods Trail, heading E.
  12. 0.5 miSharp left onto Fawn Trail, heading NW.
  13. 450 ftTurn left onto Blockhouse Trail, heading N.
  14. 0.4 miSharp right onto Calithea Trail, heading SW.
  15. 0.1 miTurn right, heading SW.
  16. 0.3 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

26% dirt74% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:56 AMSunset 7:11 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is right at the trailhead, so there is no walk out. Be there by 6:51 PM to have the sun's last 20 minutes of sky before it sets at 7:11 PM. Your car is right there — dark at 7:38 PM.

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