Nearby Attractions
Maintained by the National Park Service, nearby Antietam National Battlefield
attractions include a visitor center, numerous markers and monuments,
an observation tower, several hiking and biking trails, and the Antietam
National Cemetery.
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine's Pry House
Field Hospital Museum is located in General McClellan's former headquarters
two miles east of the Antietam Guest House. A small tree-lined park exists
where General Lee's headquarters once stood on the west side of Sharpsburg.
A
mile west of the Antietam Guest House is the Snyder's Landing area of the Potomac
River and the 185-mile long Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical
Park with its popular towpath hiking and biking trail.
Three miles southwest
of the Antietam Guest House, the new James Rumsey Bridge carries Maryland Route
34 across the Potomac River to West Virginia, historic Shepherdstown
and the campus of Shepherd University.
On the Maryland shore of the Potomac
River, the National Park Service maintains the C&O Canal's Antietam
Campground a mile south of the James Rumsey Bridge. The Park Service
also maintains Ferry Hill Place, the home of Confederate Colonel Henry
Kyd Douglas, just north of the bridge on the Maryland shore. The historic
Maryland towns of Keedysville and Boonsboro are 10 or 15 minutes east
of the Antietam Guest House.
Additional nearby Maryland attractions include
the Washington County Rural Heritage Museum, Devil's Backbone County
Park, South Mountain State Park, South Mountain Battlefield State Park,
Washington Monument State Park, Gathland State Park, Greenbrier State
Park, the Kennedy Farm John Brown headquarters national historic landmark,
and the Appalachian Trail. Nearby West Virginia attractions include the
National Conservation Training Center and Harpers Ferry National Historical
Park.
Click on the following links below for detailed information
on attractions surrounding that area.
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