Eastern States Recreation

The BLM manages recreational sites and activities in the Eastern States in order to accomplish two goals. First, we strive to facilitate greater well-being and economic benefits within communities by getting families and communities outside. Secondly, we identify other provider networks so that we can better serve our mutually shared customers. We manage sites that provide access to water recreation from the beaches of the northern Gulf Coast to the shores of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River, and further north to numerous public islands in rivers and lakes in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The BLM ES also has acclaimed biking, hiking, and horseback riding trail systems. We manage all recreation activities in partnerships with businesses, local governments and organizations who share our goal of getting families and communities outside to play and serve. 

In northern Palm Beach County on Florida’s urbanized Treasure Coast lies the 120-acre Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area (ONA).
A red lighthouse stands next to a body of water at sunset.
The Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area is located approximately 25 miles south of Washington D.C., on the Mason Neck peninsula.
Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area
The Douglas Point Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) in Charles County, Maryland, offers fantastic opportunities for hiking, horseback riding, hunting, fossil collecting, and relaxing along the shore.
Sunset behind a tree with exposed roots on a beach
The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Lower Potomac Field Station (LPFS) is located on Mason Neck in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Lower Potomac Field Station office building with sign
Journey through early American history and walk in the footsteps of our nation’s founding fathers as you explore the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (WRRRNHT).
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The Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail is a series of water routes extending approximately 3,000 miles along the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary.
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