Do you think Deep Creek Lake is a veritable paradise? (Baltimore: rentals, camp)

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by RayHammer

I generally don't consider any reservoir to be pristine, natural or paradisaical.

Read this

https://www.amazon.com/Forty-four-ye.../dp/B009RNC1JO

if you want a taste of what the "Deek Creek" was like before the dam. It must have been an amazing place.

Same goes with "Rocky Gap" which was literally a deep rocky canyon before the lake there was made. A little bit of this habitat still survives below the dam's spillway. Check it out if you get the chance by using the Evitt's homestead trail. Sadly, the wooly agelid has done a number on many of the big old Hemlock trees that live in that micro-habitat.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

Read this

https://www.amazon.com/Forty-four-ye.../dp/B009RNC1JO

if you want a taste of what the "Deek Creek" was like before the dam. It must have been an amazing place.

Same goes with "Rocky Gap" which was literally a deep rocky canyon before the lake there was made. A little bit of this habitat still survives below the dam's spillway. Check it out if you get the chance by using the Evitt's homestead trail. Sadly, the wooly agelid has done a number on many of the big old Hemlock trees that live in that micro-habitat.

Hey now, you can't stop progress. Which is what one guy told me when he wanted to turn his gas station into a tittie bar. He got real upset when I asked if his girlfriend needed a job.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Hey now, you can't stop progress. Which is what one guy told me when he wanted to turn his gas station into a tittie bar. He got real upset when I asked if his girlfriend needed a job.

Both are large economic drivers, so I won't argue that they exist with my mouth full and mortgage paid, but there was a definite ecological trade-off that most people don't know about. Neither lake is natural, and both places were once among the most amazing (some oldtimers claim Rocky Gap was the most amazing) natural habitats in Western Maryland.

Cumberland had a strip club for a few months about 20 years ago. Speaker Taylor quickly put the kibosh on that. I don't remember how, but he did it.

[Chief Sipwiaac]

I take it over Ocean City any day, I'll give it that.

[santafe400]

Most travelers to Deep Creek won't ever make it past the I-68 Deep Creek Lake exit, but there is sure as heck a lot of secluded and scenic land between there and Morgantown, WV.

[MidValleyDad]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Just something about Deep Creek:

https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2020/0...asive-species/

Maybe we need to put 'masks' on boats when they get on the lake with others. After all we wouldn't want them to spread their infection to the rest of the lake.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

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Cumberland had a strip club for a few months about 20 years ago. Speaker Taylor quickly put the kibosh on that. I don't remember how, but he did it.

This is what I mean when I talk about Maryland's "plantation politics" which so pisses off several people when I mention it.

The Speaker of the House of Delegates meddling in a local Zoning and allowable use dispute for which Cumberland had the absolute jurisdiction to regulate under 66B (at that time. It was replaced by the Land Use Article as part of Plan MD).

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

This is what I mean when I talk about Maryland's "plantation politics" which so pisses off several people when I mention it.

The Speaker of the House of Delegates meddling in a local Zoning and allowable use dispute for which Cumberland had the absolute jurisdiction to regulate under 66B (at that time. It was replaced by the Land Use Article as part of Plan MD).

So true. The club in question was 1 block from his local office, there was no way that was going to fly.

[billscamaros]

Originally Posted by santafe400

Most travelers to Deep Creek won't ever make it past the I-68 Deep Creek Lake exit, but there is sure as heck a lot of secluded and scenic land between there and Morgantown, WV.

I grew up in WV's northern panhandle and now live in Charles Town, in WV's eastern panhandle. I absolutely love the scenic drive across Rt 68, and agree with you 100%. That part of western Maryland is beautiful!!

[columbusboy8]

I LOVE the whole Deep Creek Lake area! Oakland, MD, the Garrett County seat, is next door to Deep Creek and is worth spending a day walking around! A couple of small, but very neat museums there, and some quaint shops. The annual Autumn Glory Fall Foliage Festival is not to be missed! Although Covid-19 might put a damper on it this year. Google it. The ASCI whitewater rafting course, on the top of Marsh Mountain at Deep Creek, is also pretty cool!

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