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Blockhouse Point Conservation Park

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal–Calithea Trail, 6 sights

6.7 mi · ▲ 605 ft · 2 hr 32 min

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal–Calithea Trail, 6 sights is a 6.7-mile out-and-back in Blockhouse Point Conservation Park near Rushville, MD. The route reaches Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It climbs 605 ft, with sections as steep as 18% grade. It scores 5/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi167 – 394 ft · steepest grade: 18%6.9 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 39.07175, -77.32795
Nearest town Rushville, MD
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal–Calithea Trail, 6 sights

6.7 mi · ▲ 605 ft · 2 hr 32 min

Elevation 168–393 ft

Out & Back · Blockhouse Point Conservation Park

Trailhead: 39.07175, -77.32795

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

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading E.
  2. 0.3 miTurn left onto Calithea Trail, heading SE.
  3. 0.8 miSharp left onto Blockhouse Trail, heading N.
  4. 0.3 miBear right onto Turkey Fan Trail, heading E.
  5. 0.1 miTurn left onto Upland Woods Trail, heading E.
  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. 1 miReach Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  9. 0.1 miTurn right, heading N.
  10. 1.2 miBear left onto Upland Woods Trail, heading E.
  11. 0.5 miSharp left onto Fawn Trail, heading NW.
  12. 450 ftTurn left onto Blockhouse Trail, heading N.
  13. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Springhouse Trail, heading S.
  14. 0.4 miTurn right onto Blockhouse Trail, heading SW.
  15. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Calithea Trail, heading N.
  16. 0.8 miTurn right, heading NW.
  17. 0.2 miArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/chesapeake-and-ohio-canal-calithea-trail-out-back-6-sights

Trail surface

18% dirt82% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:56 AMSunset 7:11 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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