Things to Do

Frederick's best sights are clustered between its historic downtown and the Civil War landscape just south of the city. Start downtown on foot, then use a car or rideshare for Monocacy and the outer historic houses.

Guide

Things to Do

01

National Museum of Civil War Medicine

Focused downtown museum on battlefield surgery, military hospitals, and medical change during the Civil War.

Museum
02

Monocacy National Battlefield

Rural Civil War battlefield where a delaying fight helped protect Washington in 1864.

Sight
03

Sugarloaf Mountain

Sugarloaf Mountain is one of Maryland's best-known monadnocks, rising above the Piedmont with hiking trails and broad views toward the Appalachian foothills. The summit …
04

Carroll Creek Park

Landscaped creek walk through downtown Frederick, lined with bridges, public art, shops, and restaurants.

Sight
05

Schifferstadt Architectural Museum

Rare German colonial stone house from the 1750s, preserved on Frederick's northwest side.

Museum
06

Catoctin Furnace

Catoctin Furnace is the surviving core of an iron-making village that supplied metal during the Revolutionary War and helped shape early industry in northern …

Sight
07

Rose Hill Manor

Rose Hill Manor is a hands-on historic house museum just north of central Frederick. The site focuses on early Maryland farm life, with period-costumed …

Museum
08

Baker Park

Baker Park is Frederick's broad downtown green space, stretching across 44 acres with Culler Lake, lawns, playgrounds, and a carillon. It is a useful …

Sight
09

Barbara Fritchie House

Civil War-era house tied to Frederick's Unionist legend

Sight
10

All Saints Church

All Saints Church is part of Frederick's old "Clustered Spires" skyline. The congregation dates to the colonial period, and the 1814 church helped shape …

Sight