The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-07-28
STATE FURNISHES CHANGE
OF SCENERY TO TOURISTS
Maryland Offers Best Vacation
Sites From Garrett County to-
Waters of Atlantic Ocean
PRAISE GARRETT COUNTY

Maryland furnishes without a ques-
ton of doubt more elaborate change
of scenery than any state of its size
in the Union, states E. Lee LeCompte,
state game warden. Beginning at the
Maryland West Virginia line in Gar
rett county, with the peak of Shaggy
Mountain rising to height of $500
feet, to the broad waters of the Allan
tic Ocean in Worcester county, the
scenery changes in practically every
county thru which you pass.
Deep Creek Lake, located in Garrett
county eight miles from the town of
Oakland, is, without a doubt, one of
the largest and most beautiful bodies
of inland, waters on this continent.
This lake. has been stocked, heavily
for the past few years with legal size
brook and rainbow trout, small mouth
black bass and pike. However, the
waters are infested with the rock bass
or what are known locally as tench
which are a small species of fish but
furnish great sport for the children.
If you have never visited Deep Creek
Lake, you should no so at once.
The waters of the Youghiogheny
river furnish excellent trout and bass
fishing and in that part of the river
below Swallow Falls, rainbow trout
may be taken legally July LIST to No
vember Both. The open season for
fresh water trout closed in all other
sections of the state on June 80. The
open season for black lass (both
large and small mouth) is July LIST to
November 80, and Maryland furnish
es some of the best black bass areas
of any state along the Atlantic coast.
You will enjoy vacation along the
many streams and lakes of Maryland
above a point where the tide GIBBS and
flows, he said.
Maryland Beautiful
Maryland has been called Goods
Country" and thousands of residents
of our state have never seen its great
beauties. Instead Of going to some
other state to spend your vacation, or
abroad, become familiar with the
scenic beauties of your own state.
Those who enjoy the outdoors should
not overlook Maryland's vacation
possibilities. Tourists coming to the
state by the thousands seem to
appreciate the scenic beauty and
natural resources to a greater extent
than our own people. Undoubtedly we
have the finest state highways in any
state on this continent. From the
Allegany Mountains at the West Vir-
ginia- Maryland line in Garrett county
to Ocean City on the Atlantic Coast
in Worcester county, the scenery
changes practically every fifty miles
and hundreds of camp sites are avail
able throughout the entire route.
Swallow Falls and Muddy Creek Falls
in Garrett county are surpassed in
size by many falls in this country but
not in beauty. Deep Creek Lake, IL
miles in length and " to 1 mile in
width, covering an area of approx
mately $500 acres, furnishes excel
lent camping sites on its banks. The
waters are cool due to the many
mountain streams from which it is
formed. The nights in this region
in the hottest weather are delightfully."-
cool and celebrating.
The State Forestry Department of
Maryland have added thousands of
additional acres to their holdings and
permit can be secured for the ask
ing to camp thereon. If you make
application for this permit, be sure
not to cause forest fires, thru care
lessness or otherwise, which are not
only detrimental to one of our great
est -wildlife-but the scars
left by forest fire are very insight
ly and destroy scenic beauty wherever
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