Camp David
Camp David is a 125-acre country retreat for the president of the United States. It lies in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park, in Frederick County, Maryland, near the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg, about 62 miles north-northwest of the national capital city, Washington, D.C. It is code-named Naval Support Facility Thurmont.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Camp
- Description: country retreat of the President of the United States
- Also known as: “Camp Hi-Catoctin”, “Naval Support Facility Thurmont”, “NSF Thurmont”, “USS Shangri La”, “WPA Camp #3”, and “WPA Camp 3”
- Historically known as: “Camp 3”, “High Catoctin”, and “Shangri-La”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Catoctin Mountain Park and Catoctin Mountain.
Catoctin Mountain Park
Catoctin Mountain Park is a unit of the United States national park system, in the state of Maryland. It is a popular weekend destination and home of the Presidential retreat, Camp David.
Catoctin Mountain
Peak
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Catoctin Mountain, along with the geologically associated Bull Run Mountains, forms the easternmost mountain ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are in turn a part of the Appalachian Mountains range.
Camp Greentop
Campsite
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Camp Greentop is located in Catoctin Mountain Park near Thurmont, Maryland. The camp was built by the Works Progress Administration labor program in the development of what was then known as the Catoctin Mountain Recreational Demonstration Area, and comprises 22 rustic log buildings including sleeping cabins, administrative buildings and lodges. Camp Greentop is situated 3,900 feet west of Camp David.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Foxville and Thurmont.
Foxville
Hamlet
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Foxville is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Foxville is located on Maryland Route 77, 4.7 miles west of Thurmont. Foxville is situated 2 miles southwest of Camp David.
Thurmont
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Thurmont is a small town in Frederick County, Maryland. It hosts the Catoctin Colorfest, an arts and crafts festival that draws in about 125,000 people each autumn.
Sabillasville
Village
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Sabillasville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 354. Sabillasville is situated 3½ miles north of Camp David.
Camp David
- Categories: military base and official residence
- Location: Frederick County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Camp David” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Camp David”
- Arabic: “كامب ديفد”
- Arabic: “منتجع كامب ديفيد”
- Basque: “Camp David”
- Bengali: “ক্যাম্প ডেভিড”
- Bulgarian: “Кемп Дейвид”
- Catalan: “Camp David”
- Catalan: “Naval Suport Facility Thurmond”
- Chinese: “大衛營”
- Chinese: “戴维营”
- Croatian: “Camp David”
- Czech: “Camp David”
- Danish: “Camp David”
- Dutch: “Camp David”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كامب ديفيد”
- Estonian: “Camp David”
- Finnish: “Camp David”
- French: “Camp David”
- French: “Naval Support Facility Thurmont”
- German: “Camp 3”
- German: “Camp David”
- German: “Naval Support Facility Thurmont”
- Hebrew: “קמפ דיוויד”
- Hebrew: “קמפ דייוויד”
- Hebrew: “קמפ דייויד”
- Hungarian: “Camp David”
- Indonesian: “Camp David”
- Italian: “Camp David”
- Japanese: “キャンプ・デーヴィッド”
- Japanese: “キャンプ・デービット”
- Japanese: “キャンプ・デービッド”
- Japanese: “キャンプデービッド”
- Kazakh: “Kémp-Dévïd”
- Kazakh: “Кэмп-Дэвид”
- Kazakh: “كەمپ-دەۆىيد”
- Korean: “캠프 데이비드”
- Malay: “Kem David”
- Malayalam: “കാമ്പ് ഡേവിഡ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Camp David”
- Norwegian: “Camp David”
- Persian: “کمپ دیوید”
- Polish: “Camp David”
- Portuguese: “Camp David”
- Romanian: “Camp David”
- Russian: “Кемп-Девид”
- Russian: “Кемп-Дэвид”
- Russian: “Кэмп-Дэвид”
- Serbian: “Кемп Дејвид”
- Slovenian: “Camp David”
- Spanish: “Camp David”
- Spanish: “Naval Support Facility Thurmont”
- Swedish: “Camp David”
- Swedish: “Naval Support Facility Thurmont”
- Thai: “แคมป์เดวิด”
- Turkish: “Camp David”
- Ukrainian: “Кемп-Девід”
- Vietnamese: “Trại David”
- Welsh: “Camp David”
- Yiddish: “קעמפ דעיוויד”
- Yue Chinese: “大衛營”
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