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Hoopers Island

Hoopers Island Road and Hoopersville Road Fishing Creek and Hoopersville, MD

Hoopers Island is a chain of Chesapeake Bay islands in southwestern Dorchester County, Maryland, reached by Hoopers Island Road south of Cambridge. Upper and Middle Hoopers Island remain working watermen communities, with marsh, bridges, seafood houses, birding, churches, and broad water views between the Chesapeake Bay and the Honga River.

White egret wading in shallow blue water along a grassy marsh shoreline at Janes Island State Park.

Place

Janes Island State Park

26280 Alfred J. Lawson Drive Crisfield, MD 21817

Janes Island State Park near Crisfield, Maryland, protects a remarkable saltmarsh-and-water-trail landscape on the lower Eastern Shore. The park combines a mainland campground, marina, cabins, picnic areas, and boat launch with more than 2,900 acres of island marsh, more than 30 miles of marked water trails, and remote Tangier Sound beaches reached by boat or paddle.