Nearby Attractions of the C & O Canal and Potomac River

• Antietam Creek Campground is on the C&O Canal towpath trail about three miles south of the Antietam House.
• Ferry Hill Place , the boyhood home of Confederate Col. Henry Kyd Douglas, is about three miles southwest of the Antietam House.
• James Rumsey Memorial Bridge is just south of Ferry Hill Place and carries Md. 34 across the Potomac River to Shepherdstown , W.Va.
• Killiansburg Cave is on the C&O Canal towpath about a mile north of the James Rumsey Bridge .
• Snyder's Landing Boatramp may be reached by following Chapline Street west for about a mile from the Antietam House.
• Taylor 's Landing Boatramp is about two miles north of Snyder's Landing.