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In the early sixteen hundreds, Englishman John Smith traveled through the Chesapeake region, where he encountered thriving American Indian communities and observed a bountiful landscape. The three thousand-mile Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail follows the exploratory voyages he conducted from 1607 to 1609 on the Chesapeake Bay and along several major rivers. The trail includes parks, museum sites, driving tours, and water trails aligned with his historic routes, and it offers opportunities to explore rivers, coves, and open water, travel woodland trails and shoreline paths, follow rural back roads through historic villages, visit places celebrating American Indian heritage, see wildlife in marshes, waterways, and forests, and attend festivals, demonstrations, and guided tours.

Maryland · United States