Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park Explained

Bill Burton Fishing Pier
State Park
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Label:Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park
Location:Dorchester County and Talbot County, Maryland, United States
Nearest City:Cambridge, Maryland
Coordinates:38.5906°N -76.0444°W
Area:24acres
Established:1987
Designation:Maryland state park
Administrator:Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Status:Pier closed until further notice

Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park (formerly the Choptank River Fishing Pier) is a public recreation area on the Choptank River in Trappe, Maryland. The state park preserves portions of the former Choptank River Bridge as a pier, and includes of land upriver from the pier in Talbot County.

The fishing pier was created after the Emerson C. Harrington Bridge, which had been dedicated in 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt, was replaced with the Frederick C. Malkus Bridge in 1987. In 2011, the pier was renamed to honor Bill Burton, a long-time outdoors writer and Chesapeake Bay fishing advocate, who played a significant role in preserving the old bridge as a fishing pier when the new bridge was constructed. The discovery of structural weakness below the waterline in 2022 resulted in the piers in both Dorchester and Talbot counties being closed until further notice.

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