....and snowboarding and boating and golfing and sightseeing. Plenty to do, from the Wisp Resort's "Mountain Coaster" to Swallow Falls hiking trails to the "old town" Downtown Oakland main street to sitting on a dock at Deep Creek Lake. The only downside is that you'll have to give up the big-name restaurants and stores ...

Oakland, MD is a "rural city", about a 4 hour drive west from Baltimore, MD. The area is mostly "safe", not a whole lot of trouble, except DWI's, drugs, and so on. It's not really a convenient place to get to, about 30 minutes south from MD I-68, and the only big attraction in Oakland (near MD' "Best Kept ...

I love Garrett County very much. I grew up here and graduated from Northern High School. I now live in Harrisburg, PA and visit my parents once a month. The schools are so much better then our schools in PA. I feel very safe at my parents house. The only down fall to GC is "jobs" They are hard to find and you have to travel a distance to find good ones.