Welcome to Cache Across Maryland 2023. This year is the 20th anniversary of CAM. We have made this year a little special with a CAM cache in every county, plus Baltimore City.
This is one of the caches placed for Cache Across Maryland 2023. You must find a minimum of ten caches prior to the picnic held on Saturday, June 3, 2023 in order to receive a free Maryland Geocaching Society CAM geocoin.
Make note of the code word found inside each cache container. You must enter all the symbols into an online decoder in order to print your CAM certificate as well as print a claim form to submit and receive your geocoin at the picnic. More info on CAM is available here.
There are FIVE MANDATORY COUNTIES. THOSE WILL BE GARRETT, ST MARY'S, CECIL, WORCESTER AND ANNE ARUNDEL. You can choose any of the other five counties to find a minimum of ten CAM caches.
Claiborne Landing
Claiborne is located in the portion of Talbot County known as “Bay Hundred” on a point that juts into Eastern Bay at the base of the peninsula dividing Eastern Bay from the Miles River. It is bordered on the north and east by farmland that lies between Eastern Bay and Tilghman Creek and on the west and south by Eastern Bay.
The primary physical features include the harbor, boat ramp, jetty, old ferry wharf, a saltmarsh wetland and a broad shallow cove that attracts waterfowl, parasailors, iceboaters and fans of spectacular sunsets. The built features are the late 19th and early 20th century streetscape, the Miracle House property, the former church (now the Village Hall), the building that housed the Claiborne Supply Company and several single-family houses that were once stores or bakeries.
The area designated as the Village Center is about 90% developed. The bulk of the farmland bordering the village is protected from development activity by a private conservation easement created by the late Ella Burling, the previous owner of Rich Neck Manor.
More than 781 acres of land are now protected. Other landowners have also taken steps to prevent future development of their land. Altogether, more than 68% of the open land in the 21624 zip code is under ownership that precludes future development.
Talbot County now owns the old ferry wharf in the Village Center, where it maintains a boat launch facility, and an adjacent 8.5 acre saltmarsh wetland. The county also leases from the US Army Corps of Engineers the jetty that was built for the passenger ferry and railroad terminus. A public picnic area and small beach adjoin the jetty. In addition, the county owns a wharf on Tilghman Creek.
Take a walk to the beach and back. The cache is an ammo can hidden in a bush. Please rehide as well as found or better, and use stealth.
Access / Hours
- Hours of Operation
- No entrance fee
