Fly fishing near Monkton, Maryland

Big Gunpowder Falls flowing between bare winter trees, seen from a rail-trail bridge
Photo credit

Big Gunpowder Falls from the Torrey C. Brown rail trail, Maryland. Photo: Henrysz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

4 waters with a page lie within 25 miles of Monkton, Maryland, in a straight line; the nearest are Gunpowder Falls (5 mi), Morgan Run (20 mi) and Muddy Creek (21 mi).

More about Monkton

2 fly shops are in Monkton or within 15 miles, unclaimed unless marked on their page. The nearest destination hub is Carlisle & the Cumberland Valley, 53 miles away.

Updated · Sources: USGS GNIS (town point)

4 waters near Monkton

About this

Straight-line miles from the town's point in the USGS Geographic Names Information System to the nearest mapped point or gauge on each water; the road is longer. Each page has the live flow where a gauge reports, the agency's rules and access map, and who guides it.

Within 25 miles, straight line

  1. Gunpowder FallsTailwater · 5 mi · Catch and release · live USGS flow
  2. Morgan RunFreestone river · 20 mi · Catch and release · live USGS flow
  3. Muddy CreekFreestone river · 21 mi · Catch and release · live USGS flow
  4. Codorus CreekFreestone river · 24 mi · Special-regulation trout water · live USGS flow

Fly shops nearby

About this

Shops that name Monkton as their town or publish a location within 15 miles. Facts come from each shop's own website; listings are unclaimed unless their page says claimed.

Nearest destination hub

Carlisle & the Cumberland Valley · 53 mi

Where this comes from

Sources

Town point: USGS Geographic Names Information System (town points) (U.S. Geological Survey, public domain), feature 590815, Baltimore County. Water positions, gauges, designations and species: the sources listed on each water page. Guides and shops: their own websites, as listed on each page. Nothing here grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing here grants access. Check maps, signs and landowners.