The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network connects you with the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers through 150 exceptional parks, wildlife refuges, museums, sailing ships, historic communities, trails and more. Gateways are the special places where you can experience the authentic Chesapeake.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge has its own web site by the Maryland Transportation Authority. Here you can read about the history of the bridge, view images, view live web cams of traffic on the bridge and at toll booths, get toll rates and traffic advisories, and sign up for email alerts for bridge information.
The Chesapeake Bay Recovery Partnership is a newly formed public-private partnership between the Oyster Recovery Partnership and the State of Maryland (Department of Natural Resources).The partnership was created to raise funds from public and private sources and to implement large-scale, integrated Chesapeake Bay restoration projects that will include oyster restoration, bay [...]
The mission of the Oyster Recovery Partnership is to restore the ecological and economic benefits of oysters to Chesapeake Bay by creating habitat through the rehabilitation of historically productive oyster bars and seeding those bars with hatchery disease-free oysters produced at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science Horn [...]
The Annapolis Chapter is one of the largest and most active chapters in the MSSA. Our Members share a passion for Saltwater Fishing in both the Chesapeake Bay and the Bluewater found off the Delmarva Coast. In addition to fun and informative meetings, our members organize and participate in numerous events [...]
In 1883 the Sandy Point Shoal caisson with a 37-foot Empire-style eight-sided, red brick tower with a white roof and black lantern housing a 4th order Fresnel lens was built. This caisson replaced an earlier Sandy Point Light that had been built on land where Sandy Point State Park is located now. It was an [...]
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is a volunteer, civilian, non-military arm of the U.S. Coast Guard. It serves the general public through boating-safety classes, vessel safety checks, and safety patrols on the water and in the air. Members of the Auxiliary have no law-enforcement powers and issue no permits or citations. However, [...]
Podickory Point is a privately owned yacht and beach club on the Chesapeake Bay, 2 miles Northwest of the Bay Bridge, near the mouth of the Magothy River and is surrounded by the state-owned nature preserve of the Sandy Point State Park.
