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PAW PAW TUNNEL
Did you know?
The Paw Paw Tunnel is one of the most significant
engineering features on the canal. Located at mile-
post 155.2 of the canal, the Paw Paw Tunnel is open The Paw Paw fruit is North America’s largest edible fruit and
year-round from daylight to dusk. But if you plan to grows wild in many locations around Maryland, including
visit, bring a flashlight. Even on the sunniest of days, the C&O Canal. Next time you are in the park, grab
the openings at both ends of the tunnel reduce to one to try* or clench your thirst with Mountain
pinpoints as you make the 20-minute walk through Maryland’s very own Paw Paw Lemonade, locally
the center of the tunnel. Following your travels produced by Western Maryland Lemonade.
through the tunnel, enjoy the two-mile-long Tunnel Hill
Trail where you can discover breathtaking views of the *The park allows visitors to pick and take home
1/2 gallon of pawpaws per person, per day.
Paw Paw Bends.
C&O CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
AND VISITORS MUSEUM
The museum features interactive and educational displays about the history
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the historic growth and expansion
of the city of Cumberland. Pass through a model of the Paw Paw Tunnel
and explore a life-size section of a canal boat. View exhibits on the canal's
construction, cargo, mules, locks, and crew. While there, head to the
Trestle Walk at Canal Place to view ‘The Cumberland,’ a full-sized replica
canal boat constructed in 1976 as a bicentennial project for the C&O Canal.
WESTERN MARYLAND SCENIC RAILROAD
Featuring the newly-restored 1309 steam engine – the largest operating steam
engine of its kind in the world, the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad operates
year-round with excursions departing from Cumberland, MD, at the terminus of the
C&O Canal, and winds through The Narrows to climb 1,291 vertical feet to the
mountain city of Frostburg.
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