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Overnighters: Delmarva Peninsula

Chesapeake Bay Cycling
Flat coastal cycling on the eastern shore, the last major green space between Boston and Richmond.

Delaware National Wildlife Refuges
information on the Bombay and Prime Hook refuges.

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Assateague National Seashore
More than just Misty are wild here. Sister facility to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.

Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds on Delaware Bay
Each May, millions of migratory shorebirds and spawning horseshoe crabs converge on the beaches of Delaware Bay, making for one of the East's supernal wildlife spectacles.

Delmarva Rambles
Three walks through very different slices of Delmarva nature, from the C&D Canal near Wilmington, to the Norman G. Wilder Conservation Area not far from Dover, to Delaware Seashore State Park out on the Atlantic coast.

Blackwater NWR
Eastern Neck NWR

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