Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network

Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
Map showing the location of Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Map showing the location of Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network

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Location Chesapeake Bay shoreline
Nearest city Annapolis, Maryland
Coordinates 37°19′20″N 76°15′12″W / 37.32212°N 76.25336°W / 37.32212; -76.25336Coordinates: 37°19′20″N 76°15′12″W / 37.32212°N 76.25336°W / 37.32212; -76.25336
Established 1998
Governing body National Park Service

The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network is a unit of the National Park Service and a system of over 150 parks, refuges, museums, historic communities and water trails in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. It is an estuary stretching from southernmost Virginia to northernmost Maryland, a distance of 180 miles.

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