High Rock
Pen Mar is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is one of the border towns in the United States with a portmanteau name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Quirauk Mountain and Pen Mar Park.
Quirauk Mountain
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Quirauk Mountain is the highest point on South Mountain. The 2,145-foot peak is located in northeastern Washington County, Maryland. It lies just southwest of Fort Ritchie Military Reservation in the village of Cascade and about 1/2 mile southeast of the community of Blue Mountain.
Pen Mar Park
Park
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pen Mar Park is a scenic area and county park in the community of Pen Mar in Washington County, Maryland. It is located on Pen Mar High Rock Road adjacent to the Mason–Dixon line.
Camp Louise
Summer camp facility
Camp Louise is an all-girls, Jewish overnight summer camp in the Catoctin Mountains in Cascade, Maryland. It is the sister camp of Camp Airy for boys, which is located in Thurmont.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edgemont and Fort Ritchie.
Edgemont
Hamlet
Edgemont is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 231 as of the 2010 census.
Fort Ritchie
Hamlet
Fort Ritchie is a census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States, just south of the Pennsylvania state line. The population was 276 at the 2000 census. Fort Ritchie is a former U.S. military base that closed in September 1998, pursuant to the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania is immediately to the north.
Pen Mar
Village
Pen Mar is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is one of the border towns in the United States with a portmanteau name.
High Rock
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,834 feet
- Description: mountain summit in Washington County, Maryland
- Categories: mountain, scenic viewpoint, and landform
- Location: Washington County, Western Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.6951° or 39° 41′ 42″ northLongitude
-77.52249° or 77° 31′ 21″ westElevation
1,834 feet (559 metres)Open location code
87F4MFWH+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 358241542OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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