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A State for All Seasons | SPRING

Spring Into Action

BY BRENNEN JENSEN

The flowers are blooming and so are
opportunities for Maryland adventure and fun.

Here comes the sun! The Baltimore Orioles (and the state’s other ball players)
are back on the field and their feathered counterparts (the state bird) are back in
the treetops. Shake off any lingering cabin fever and enjoy seasonal festivals, fun
overnight trips and gardens exploding with color. Pick your own berries or pick
apart the season’s first crabs. Spring headlong into sensory delight.

Petal Power PHOTO: SHERWOOD GARDENS
Warming days lead to
glowing gardens and Diamond Days Tasty Pickings Spring Breaks Sherwood Gardens, Baltimore
Maryland has a bounty Greet the season with a
of beautiful places to Play ball! The boys of You can’t get more restorative getaway, be it Got Crabs?
hang out with friends summer get started in locavore than picking adventurous or luxurious.
and family. The Annmarie the spring at ballparks your own berries and The Savage River Lodge Succulent and sweet
Sculpture Garden in big and small. Cheer on fruit. May brings in Frostburg lets you bunk with a firm texture that
Solomons features 30 the hardball action of the strawberries, with down in your own yurt, sets it above all others,
art-filled, landscaped professional Baltimore cherries, blackberries and for a different sort of the Maryland blue crab
acres. Brookeville’s Orioles or one of the state’s and blueberries close B&B, book a cabin on the is the undisputed king of
Brighton Azalea Garden numerous minor league behind. Places to try your schooner Woodwind Boat & crustaceans. So break out
has a dazzling display of teams: the Frederick hand at harvesting include Breakfast. For a pampered the mallets: crab season
color courtesy of 20,000 Keys, Hagerstown Suns, Gardenhour Orchards escape, Tilghman Island’s is in full swing. Crisfield
blooming bushes, and Bowie Baysox, Aberdeen in Smithsburg, Butlers bucolic Black Walnut celebrates soft-shelled
Baltimore’s Sherwood IronBirds, Delmarva Orchard in Germantown, Point Inn offers in-room crabs each May with a Soft
Gardens astounds with Shorebirds and Southern Lohr’s Orchard in massages and a host of Shell Spring Fair, while
80,000 tulips. Maryland Blue Crabs. Churchville, Shlagel Farms other pleasures, and four there are crabs by the
in Waldorf and Baugher’s pools await at Cambridge’s bushel at Leonardtown’s
Left: Frederick Keys, Nymeo Orchards and Farms Hyatt Regency Chesapeake St. Mary’s Crab Festival in
Field at Harry Grove Stadium, in Westminster. Bay Golf Resort, Spa and June. Other places to get
Fredrick; Right: Gardenhour Marina. You can literally cracking include Baltimore’s
Orchards, Smithsburg drink in the history at Bo Brooks, the West Pointe
Thurmont’s Springfield Crab House in Frederick,
Manor Winery and and Schula’s Grill & Crab PHOTOS: TOURISM COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY
Distillery as you stay in House in Hagerstown, or
an 18th-century home check out the Maryland
amid a working winery Department of Natural
and distillery. Resources “True Blue”
program to find the nearest
spot serving genuine
Maryland blue crab.

For more spring trip ideas, visit VisitMaryland.org/things-to-do/spring.

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