State parks can fill up quickly, especially on holidays and summer weekends, but a new system is now in place to make sure visitors are not left high and dry when headed out to their favorite spot.

Maryland state parks are in their busy season, with yearly attendance still millions more than before the COVID-19 pandemic. “We were discovered in and after the pandemic, and we stayed discovered,” ...

Maryland officials are hoping that if a new crowd control plan works, visitors to some of the state’s most popular parks will not have to camp out before busy days as early as midnight. Starting ...

The Maryland Park Service will soon require day passes to visit several state recreation areas, which could have residents scrambling for other ways to cool off in the summer. A new Day-Use ...