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EASTERN SHORE

Perryville. GREAT WOLF LODGE. 1240 Chesapeake Overlook Pkwy, (I-95 exit 93, west on turnpike pkwy, follow Chesapeake Overlook Pkwy) 21903. In all, the Perryville park has 22 waterslides, raft rides and tube slides in its 128,000-square-foot development including two newly designed water slides. There is also “dry play” areas with interactive scavenger hunts, a bowling alley and a ropes course as well as several eateries including a restaurant with fresh seafood and crab cakes on the menu and a s’mores table for dessert. Rooms at Great Wolf start at $199 a night for a standard suite and can sleep up to five or six. Other suite options — including kid-friendly rooms with bunk beds and some two-bedroom suites with a living room space — range from $269 to $399. https://www.greatwolf.com/maryland

HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STATE PARK

Cambridge (Church Creek) – 4068 Golden Hill Road (near Blackwater Refuge, about 12 miles south of town off of Rte 335) 21622. www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/tubman.asp or www.nps.gov/hatu. Phone: (410) 221-1871. Hours: Daily 9:00am-5:00pm, with exception of major winter holidays.

This long-anticipated center opened to exhibit Harriet Tubman’s role as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and her work as a freedom fighter, humanitarian, leader and liberator. The surrounding grounds (and byway to the site, http://harriettubmanbyway.org/) and marshes are some areas where Harriet repeatedly risked her life to guide nearly 70 enslaved people north to new lives of freedom. Walk into the Museum and step back into recreated scenes and an introductory film.

SILVER SPRING

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE – 2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20910. www.medicalmuseum.mil/ Phone: (202) 782-2200. Hours: 10:00am-5:30pm daily (except December 25). Admission and parking are FREE, but donations are accepted.
Compare a smoker’s lung to a coal miner’s lung, see the bullet that took Abraham Lincoln’s life as well as fragments of his skull and a lock of his hair, touch a real brain or the inside of a stomach if you dare. Try on a pregnancy garment that makes you feel what it’s like to be with child, view skeletons and skulls and a stomach-shaped hairball surgically removed from inside a 12-year-old girl. There are live leeches, the world’s most comprehensive collection of microscopes dating to the 1600’s, a display of kidney stones, a brain still attached to a spinal cord suspended in formaldehyde, and medical artifacts and instruments important in the development of medicine during the Civil War and today’s modern hospital.

CLOSED

CENTRAL Baltimore, Streetcar Museum, 78
CENTRAL Aberdeen, US Army Ordinance Museum, 60
CENTRAL Annapolis, Family Fishing Adventures, 69
CENTRAL Havre de Grace, Laurrapin Grille, 101
CENTRAL Whiteford, Applewood Farm, 111
EASTERN SHORE Cambridge, Fly In, 120
EASTERN SHORE Salisbury, Pewter Outlet, 139
WESTERN Deep Creek Lake, Fireside Deli, 182
WESTERN Hagerstown, Train Room, 187
WESTERN Deep Creek Lake, Husky Power Dogsledding, 177

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