The last stop on our weekend road trip was at the Sideling Hill visitors center, on I-68 in Big Pool, MD.Sideling Hill is sort of odd, as tourist attractions go. When they were buiding the highway, the road crew's blasting exposed nearly a thousand verticle feet and 350 million years of Maryland geology. So they built a visitors center to coax people off the highway and learn a bit about how our little mountain range was formed. It's also home to a wildlife refuge and some good hiking trails.
Because we were traveling east, we had to take a footbridge over the highway to get to the viewing platform. Crockett was a bit confused about where the traffic was coming from, but had no trouble climbing to the top of the stairs to get a good view.If you want to learn more, go to:
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/sidelinghill.html
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