Local travel: Nanticoke
Nanticoke does not have a hotel. It does not have a restaurant. It has a red-brick thrift store that is open once a week for maybe two hours.
A tourist town this is not. But it’s still lovely. And it’s only a few miles from the Whitehaven Hotel, where you can stay and make a weekend trip out of exploring the area.
Nanticoke and its sister towns are about 3 hours from Baltimore, or if you're coming from someplace else, about 20 miles from Salisbury. You stay on 50 but don't take the bypass, and pick up 349 at the 7-11; you can also go through Hebron and Quantico, where my photoprapher friend swears the Hebron Family Restaurant is great.
I think Nanticoke, Tyaskin and Bivalve are some of the prettiest towns on the shore, and certainly the nicest in Wicomico County. None have much in the way of things to do; they are all a few miles from the only restaurant that’s open this time of year, which is appropriately called Boonies. And it does the basics pretty well, thankfully, or else you’d be stuck with crackers from the small convenience store on Route 349.
I love the way the whole place smells like salt marsh, and that there is still a wooden bridge over Wetipquin Creek in Tyaskin, and that the gas stations, when you can find them, have those old-fashioned pumps. I love how, if you have a kayak or a canoe, you can paddle among the marshes that seem to never end along the Nanticoke, one of the Shore’s most pristine and pretty rivers.
In a few years, this place may get more developed; marshes protect some of it from building, but the retirees just keep on coming. But for now, it’s unspoiled.
A tourist town this is not. But it’s still lovely. And it’s only a few miles from the Whitehaven Hotel, where you can stay and make a weekend trip out of exploring the area.
Nanticoke and its sister towns are about 3 hours from Baltimore, or if you're coming from someplace else, about 20 miles from Salisbury. You stay on 50 but don't take the bypass, and pick up 349 at the 7-11; you can also go through Hebron and Quantico, where my photoprapher friend swears the Hebron Family Restaurant is great.
I think Nanticoke, Tyaskin and Bivalve are some of the prettiest towns on the shore, and certainly the nicest in Wicomico County. None have much in the way of things to do; they are all a few miles from the only restaurant that’s open this time of year, which is appropriately called Boonies. And it does the basics pretty well, thankfully, or else you’d be stuck with crackers from the small convenience store on Route 349.
I love the way the whole place smells like salt marsh, and that there is still a wooden bridge over Wetipquin Creek in Tyaskin, and that the gas stations, when you can find them, have those old-fashioned pumps. I love how, if you have a kayak or a canoe, you can paddle among the marshes that seem to never end along the Nanticoke, one of the Shore’s most pristine and pretty rivers.
In a few years, this place may get more developed; marshes protect some of it from building, but the retirees just keep on coming. But for now, it’s unspoiled.
