# Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (Grasonville)

> Place to go for families in the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson area (MD). Times are Eastern Time.

- When: Open daily 9:00 am–5:00 pm, year-round; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's…
- Where: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center, 600 Discovery Lane, Grasonville, MD 21638
- Ages: Check age guidance
- Price: No admission fee is printed on the visit page
- Schedule: Open daily 9:00 am–5:00 pm, year-round; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. The Visitor Center is open only mid-April through mid-November.
- Organizer: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center
- Official page: https://bayrestoration.org/
- Last checked: Tue, Oct 27

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## About

A 510-acre nonprofit nature preserve on the Queen Anne's County shore of the Chesapeake Bay, just off US 301/US 50 at Grasonville. Families can walk about six miles of trails through forest, meadow and marsh, picnic and play on a small beach, and visit the center's captive birds of prey. It is a birding hotspot: eagles, ospreys, owls, herons, egrets, swans and ducks appear through the year, and winter migrants start arriving on the lakes and ponds in November and stay until late February or March, which makes a cold-weather walk worthwhile with binoculars. Foxes, raccoons, deer, otters and muskrats live on the property, and turtles and terrapins turn up along the shorelines. In warmer months there is kayaking and paddleboarding on Marshy Creek and the Bay, and the center runs education programs for preschoolers and school-age children. Visitors are asked not to disturb animals or plants or take anything home, and fishing is not allowed in the ponds and lakes.

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