Eastern Shore stories, history, places, and field notes.
Place
US 50/301 at Kent Island Stevensville, MD 21666
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge at Kent Island is Maryland’s great threshold between the Western Shore and the Eastern Shore. Officially the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge, the dual-span US 50/301 crossing links Sandy Point near Annapolis with Stevensville on Kent Island and reshaped travel, tourism, commuting, and local life across the Chesapeake.
Place
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.
Place
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.