Our trip to Catoctin Mountain Park was a negotiation from the start. My partner and I brought vegan hot dogs, peanut butter and jelly, and apples. The couple we traveled with brought a cooking ...

Nestled in the mountains of Western Maryland in the northeastern part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Catoctin Mountain Park was once devastated by logging and agricultural growth in the 18th and 19th ...

Maryland’s Catoctin Mountain Park is closed to the public and 30 park employees have been furloughed as part of the federal government shutdown that began on Tuesday, National Park officials said.

Catoctin Mountain Park will be partially closed from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening. Park Central Road will be closed between the Hog Rock Parking Lot and the Camp Greentop entrance during the ...

THURMONT, Md. — Catoctin Mountain Park will temporarily close portions of the park from Friday, April 11, to Sunday, April 13. According to a community announcement, closures will begin around ...

THURMONT, Md. (WJZ) --Officials at Catoctin Mountain Park in western Maryland said they have received multiple reports of bear and bear cub sightings in the park in the past week. Even with the ...

Catoctin Mountain Park Superintendent Rick Slade led the way up a gradually increasing slope toward Thurmont Vista. Towering hardwoods surround the path, but just 145 years ago, the area would ...

Catoctin Mountain Park and wooded areas in northern Frederick County are likely home to animals once thought to be extinct in the state: fishers. Fishers (Pekania pennanti) are part of the weasel ...