The DC escape · Plum Point, Maryland
An hour from DC.
A century away.
Plum Point is a waterfront cottage community in Calvert County, Maryland, about 35 miles southeast of Washington, DC. Leave the Beltway after work on Friday and you can have your feet in the Chesapeake before sunset, without ever touching the Bay Bridge.
Route 4 south, pines closing in behind you, the bay opening up ahead.
From the Beltway
About 35 miles down Route 4. Baltimore is roughly 75 minutes; Annapolis about 45.
Bay Bridge crossings
Plum Point is on the western shore, so there is no bridge backup between you and the sand.
A night, to start
Six pet-friendly waterfront cottages with free kayaks, fire pits, and weekly rates available.
The itinerary
The perfect 48 hours.
evening
Arrive, unpack, ignite.
Check in, let the dog inspect the porch, and get the fire pit going while the sun drops over the water. Dinner is whatever you brought, eaten outside. The city noise is already gone.
morning
Kayaks, then shark teeth.
Paddle the shoreline before the breeze picks up; the kayaks are free and the bay is glass before lunch. Walk the tide line on the way back and hunt fossil shark teeth, which wash out of the Calvert Cliffs onto these beaches all year.
afternoon
Boardwalk and blue crabs.
Drive 13 minutes north to North Beach for the boardwalk, the pier, and antique row, then finish at a crab deck around Chesapeake Beach: brown paper, wooden mallets, Old Bay everywhere.
Slow coffee, then Solomons.
Coffee on the screened porch, one last beach walk, and a late checkout feeling. If you can stretch the weekend, the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, with its megalodon jaws and screwpile lighthouse, is thirty minutes south and roughly on the way home.
Leave Friday at five.
Bonfire by eight.
Six pet-friendly waterfront cottages about an hour from Washington, DC. From $198 a night.
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