Conor Gray This place is serving up some seriously delicious eats, and their clam chowder? Well, it’s so good it might just make you forget you’re in the Midwest and not on some quaint New England ...

Swallow Falls State Park, a short drive from downtown Oakland, houses Maryland’s highest free-falling waterfall, the 53-foot Muddy Creek Falls. The park’s ancient hemlock forest creates a microclimate ...