Family stays · Sleeps 3 to 5
Kids remember
this one.
Our waterfront cottages at Plum Point in Calvert County, Maryland were built for family summers: a sandy Chesapeake Bay beach with fossil shark teeth in it, free kayaks on the lawn, screened porches for flashlight hours, and a megalodon thirty minutes down the road. About an hour from Washington, DC, with no Bay Bridge traffic.
The front yard: sand, shallow water, and fifteen million years of buried treasure.
The hook
The souvenir is 15 million years old.
The beach out front sits on the same fossil formation as the famous Calvert Cliffs, which means the morning routine here involves a bucket. Fossil shark teeth wash up on this sand year round, black and glossy against the tide line, and kids find them faster than adults because they are closer to the ground and take it more seriously.
Our fossil-hunting guide covers the how and where, from the sand below the lawn to Brownie's Beach ten minutes north. The teeth go home in a jam jar and outlast every arcade token ever won.
Fossil hunting 101
Standard Plum Point posture: heads down, bucket ready.
Rain or shine
Plans for every forecast.
Sunny days run themselves: the beach, the free kayaks, Breezy Point next door, and boardwalk ice cream in North Beach. For everything else, the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons is the best two indoor hours in the county, with a 35-foot megalodon skeleton, river otters, and touch tanks built for small hands.
The deeper bench: a swimming pool and creek paddles at Kings Landing Park twelve minutes away, mini golf and bumper cars in Prince Frederick, and a bowling alley up the road. The full list sorts it by mood.
Sleeps up to
Cottage #14 takes the whole crew; every cottage sleeps at least three.
Shark-tooth beach
The fossil hunt starts at the bottom of the yard, no drive required.
Megalodon and otters
The Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, the county's great rainy-day card.
Breezy Point Beach
The county swimming beach and campground next door, open May through October.
Pick your cottage
Room for the crew.
Cottages from $198 a night, with weekly rates available. All pet-friendly, because the dog is family too. Book direct and skip the platform fees.
Cottage #14
The biggest of the six, with porch dining that looks at the bay.
Cottage #3
Two real bedrooms, so bedtime actually happens.
Cottage #20
The sleeping loft is the most requested bed in the colony.
Cottage #1
The studio with the full-width screened porch.
Cottage #15
The king bed for the parents, at the quiet end.
Cottage #17
Queen bed, flower garden out front, kayaks on the lawn.
Pack the
bucket.
Six pet-friendly waterfront cottages with free kayaks and a fossil beach out front, from $198 a night.
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