Things to do in Maryland in Summer
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Find Family Fun at Pirate Adventures
Set sail in search of fun with us and experience a Pirate Adventure with your family aboard the pirate ship Sea Gypsy in the Annapolis Harbor.
Things to do in Maryland in Summer – Family Bucket List
Join us on a Pirate Adventure!
Shoot the water cannons at Pirate Pete in Annapolis, MD
At Pirate Adventures we provide a kid’s attraction that should be on every families’ summer bucket list. When looking for things to do in Maryland in summer what could be better than sailing away in search of sunken treasure on a pirate ship? With warmer weather heading our way, FINALLY, we thought we would assemble a list of things to do in Maryland with the kids this summer.
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Take a Hike
Potomac Falls
Maryland is full of great state and national parks many with lots of facilities making it easy to bring the kids along. Two of our favorites are the Maryland side of Great Falls and Calvert Cliffs State Park. For more options check out Visit Maryland’s list of family-friendly trails.
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Come to Annapolis
What to Do with Kids in Annapolis, MD
Jump on a pirate ship, see the Naval Academy and eat some crabs! Summer is a great time to visit Annapolis, there is always something going on. Check out our posts What to do with Kids in Annapolis and Family Friendly Restaurants in Annapolis to help plan a great trip to our beautiful city on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Swim
Chesapeake Bay Beach
Take advantage of the beaches on the Chesapeake Bay and on the Atlantic Ocean. Head to western Maryland for Deep Creek Lake and Rocky Gap State Park. Check out this post from Chesapeake Inspired Maryland’s Beaches off the Beaten Path
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Hit a water park or a sprayground
Chesapeake Beach Water Park – ourkids.com
Keep cool with water parks and spraygrounds in Maryland. Our favorites are Chesapeake Beach Water Park and the Good Hope Sprayground. Check out this post from The Huffington Post for The Best Water Parks around DC.
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Take the kids Fishing
If your kids live in Maryland they should have the experience of catching a fish this summer! Discover fishing with the kids at Family Fishing Adventures. Catch the big one on a larger head boat like the Miss Chesapeake Beach. Take them to Sandy Point State Park or Gunpowder Falls. Check out the Fishing Rodeos for kids put on by the Maryland DNR.
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Picnic at your Favorite Playground
Let the kids run, bring the dog and pack a fun picnic lunch. Find out where to picnic in Annapolis after your Pirate Adventure. Discover pirate themed playgrounds or visit a new playground this summer. Playgrounds are easy to check off of your summer bucket list.
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Go to a Festival
First Sunday Arts Festival
Summer in Maryland is filled with Fairs and Festivals to bring the kids too. Here are some of our favorites:
First Sunday Arts Festival – Annapolis (held the first Sunday of every month in the Summer. Take the kids before or after your Pirate Adventure!)Children’s Day on the Farm – St. Leonard
Taste of Cambridge Crab Cook-Off and Festival – Cambridge
Maryland BBQ Bash – Belair
Maryland State Fair – Timonium
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Play Mini Golf
Mini Golf is classic summer fun. Take the kids out for ice cream or a snowball afterward. Watkins Regional Park has a no-frills mini-golf course along with a miniature train, antique carousel, and playground. CBS Local has a thorough list of Mini Golf Courses in the Baltimore Area.
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Pick Your Own
Summer is berry season! Pick your own and make something delicious with these recipes from Coastal Living Magazine. Butler’s Orchard in Germantown is a great choice for picking your own berries. Find more options with this list from about.com.
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Hope we see you this summer at Pirate Adventures! Find more fun things to do with kids this summer with us.
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We love to spend summer days at the beach swimming and building sandcastles
Luckily there’s lots of fun FREE activities in the DMV area. I love taking my daughter to parks, trails, street festivals, music concerts, you name it!
Watching my family stand-up-paddle board on our beautiful Chesapeake Bay. I’m going to learn to do it too so I can join in on the fun.
My family loves spending time together indoors or out whenever we have the chance! We enjoy hiking through trails at our MD parks, spending time at the beach, walking through our local downtown (Frederick) especially to our favorite candy store. We enjoy bowling and recently my kids enjoyed climbing on the trees in the monkey grove at Adventure Park in Montgomery County. We also enjoyed the pirate adventure a couple of years ago and would love to do it again!
We actually create our own Bucket List for every season. Our summer list includes things such as going to one of our local beaches or Sandy Point State Park, story time at the library on a really hot day, eating crabs and shrimp, camping in the backyard, heading to an O’s game, going on a Pirate Adventure (naturally!), catching fireflies, blowing bubbles, and making popsicles!
We have 3 boys, so anything outside is ideal. We LOVE all of the pick your own/farm to table opportunities in Maryland. So many farms and the bounty is plentiful during the summer! Bonus? Fruit right off the tree is amazing!
Lucky for us that we live in the best state ever! We love the outdoors and love that we can go from hiking sugar loaf mountain to a sunny day building sand castles and catching some waves at the beach. Any and evey chance we get we escape the hustle and bustle and slow down! Our summers are all about long hot sunny days and cool nights catching lightening bugs.
We recently moved all the way from Texas! So this is our first summer here and we plan on doing it all!! We are excited to go to the Pick your own fruit/veggie orchards, hiking, going to the water parks and of course going on a pirate adventure in July!! I can’t wait to take the family to get some yummy fresh crabs too!! LOVE this place 🙂
Fave activities include eating,, biking, the beach and mini golf! OH! and lets not forget the celebration of MadiSuns bday!!!
We love to walk through Annapolis around the Eastport bridge and down through Church and State Circle, along with visiting the WWII memorial. Visiting El Toro’s and the Charthouse are always fun, along with the 1st Sunday art show downtown. Eating crabs, walking the boardwalk in OC, and going to an O’s game are on this year’s To-Do list. And we would love to take our grandson on a Pirate Adventure this summer!