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GarrettCounty Map | Regional Map
ONLY
20 Minutes from Deep Creek Lake!
Season
May Through October
Kayak
Meeting Place Savage River Reservoir
is currently moved to Jennings -
Randolph Lake or Youghiogheny Reservoir of May 1st, 2008, due to Savage Reservoir Dam Work and unusally low levels.
Check with the headquarters for details 1-800-446-7554
Savage Reservopir Normal Meeting Place
Intersection of Dry Run Road and Savage River Road
SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
3 Hours From Washington DC & Baltimore
We recommend that you do not use a GPS navigation. Folks have had trouble on the back roads.
Directions from Deep
Creek Lake
We meet at the Dry Run Boat
Launch at the Savage River Reservoir. Regularly Scheduled trips start
at 10:00AM. It is about 20 minutes from Deep Creek Lake. From Deep
Creek Lake, turn off of Route 219 on the Glendale Road. This is the
road to Deep Creek Lake State Park and it is 2/10 of a mile south
of Garrett 8 Cinemas (at the light and almost across from Macdonalds).
You can only turn one way on Glendale regardless of if you are coming north or south on 219.
Follow Glendale Rd over the Glendale Bridge and bear right
staying on Glendale Rd. Follow
Glendale until it ends and T's at Route 495 (about 5-6 miles). Turn left on 495 and go 6/10
of a mile to Dry Run Road. There is a sign for the Savage River Inn. Turn right (the only way you
can go) on Dry Run Road and Follow Dry Run Road all the way to the
bottom of the mountain where it ends at Savage River Road. Go across
Savage River Road and through the chained link fence gate into the small dirt lane marked with a sign "Dry
Run Boat Launch". DO NOT TURN on Savage River Road. If you are early and need to use the rest rooms turn left on Savage River Road, and follow for approx 2 miles to facilities on the right at Big Run State Park.
Directions from Pittsburgh
Follow I-79 to I-68 in Morgantown WV. Take I-68 East towards Cumberland
MD. Follow for 36 miles and Exit # 4 IN MARYLAND, the Friendsville
Exit. Follow route 42 south towards Deep Creek Lake. In 7 miles
42 merges with Route 219. Follow 219 south towards Deep Creek Lake.
Follow 219 over the lake and make the first right you come to at the
light, Glendale Rd (MacDonalds on right). Turn left off 219 onto
the Glendale Road. Follow Glendale
Rd across the Glendale Bridge STAYING right and staying on Glendale
Rd. Follow Glendale
until it ends at Route 495, about 5 miles. Turn left on 495 and go
6/10 of a mile to Dry Run Road. There may be a sign for the Savage
River Reservoir and a sign for the Savage River Inn and Log Cabins.
Turn right (the only way you can go) on Dry Run Road and Follow Dry
Run Road all the way to the bottom of the mountain where it ends at
Savage River Road. Go across Savage River Road through the chained link fence gate into the small dirt
lane marked with a sign "Dry Run Boat Launch".
DO NOT TURN on Savage River Road. If you are early and need to use the rest rooms turn left on Savage River Road, and follow for approx 2 miles to facilities on the right at Big Run State Park.
Directions from Baltimore
and DC
Get on I-70 west from Baltimore or from Washington DC and I-270. Follow
70 west to Hagerstown and get on I-68 WEST towards Hancock and Cumberland
MD. Follow I-68 to Exit #19 (Grantsville Exit) and follow Route 495
south towards Swanton. Follow for APPROX 14 miles. You will go past
Rock Lodge Road on the right and thenin a few miles past the Western
Maryland 4-H Education Center and Camp on your right. Stay on 495
up over hill and down a big hill and make the very hard LEFT on New
Germany Road at the bottom of the hill (the only way you can turn).
Follow New Germany for NO MORE THAN 1/2 mile, to the first dirt/gravel/semi-hardtop
road on your right, Blackhawk School Road. This is a tricky RIGHT turn down kind of a steep hill, look carefully there may not be a sign for this road. The turn is just past a mobile home on the right. If you go past a small brown sign that says State Forest or past the Monroe Run Hiking Trailhead you went past it.
Turn right on Blackhawk
School and follow for 1/4 mile until it T's and ends at Dry Run Road.
Turn left and follow for 4-5 miles until it T's and ends at a stop
sign and Savage River Road. Go ACROSS Savage River Road and through
gate into the parking lot of the Dry Run Boat Launch. This is where
we meet and depending on water levels we may be right there or more
down by the water. Downshift coming down Dry Run Road or you will smoke your breaks.
DO NOT TURN on Savage River Road. If you are early and need to use the rest rooms turn left on Savage River Road, and follow for approx 2 miles to facilities on the right at Big Run State Park.
SEE
MAP
To
Make Reservations or for Verbal Directions
Call Toll Free 1-800-446-7554
or
local 301-746-4083
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