We’d been told at the visitor center that the horses might be harder to find due to torrential downpours the previous day. A hurricane blew those plans away in 1962 and then the NPS designation was granted in 1965, preventing further construction.įrom a parking lot on the Atlantic Ocean side of the road, we walked down to the beach. Apparently, this island had been prepared for residential development in the 1950s with a road running the length of the island. We saw patches of asphalt buried in the sand in part of the loop. There are numbered markers that correspond to a nature guide that can be printed from the NPS website. ‘Life of the Dunes’ trail begins at the end of the park road. A fence at the Maryland-Virginia border keeps the two herds of wild horses separate.Īssateague Island National Seashore has three short nature loop trails. To see the Virginia section ( Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge) you must drive via the mainland to the southern entrance. There is no road connecting the Maryland and Virginia sections of the island. From there, we drove about two miles to the end of the road in the Maryland District. You have to turn right onto the main road to continue to the NPS tollbooth. The part of the island just on the other side of the bridge is a Maryland State Park. We grabbed a map and headed across the bridge, keeping our eyes open for wild horses. The visitor center has some aquariums, a film about the horses and some other interesting displays. We began at the Barrier Island Visitor Center, just before the Verazzano Bridge which connects the mainland to the island. The area is famous for its wild horses…descended from shipwreck survivors or from early settlers’ free-range horses. On a long weekend we were spending in Ocean City, Maryland, we decided to take a break from the non-stop coverage of the Boston Bomber manhunt and explore the Maryland District of Assateague Island National Seashore.Īssateague is a 37-mile barrier island off the coasts of Maryland and Virginia. Welcome back to National Parks & other public lands with T! If you are seeing this on Twitter or Facebook, please visit the blog to see all of the photos and read the story by clicking the link.
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