Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network

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Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Map of the United States
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Location Chesapeake Bay shoreline
Nearest city Annapolis, Maryland
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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