Ocean City, MD Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

With more than ten miles of broad Atlantic beach, a boisterous boardwalk amusement park and hundreds of thousands of visitors every weekend, OCEAN CITY is Maryland's number one summer resort. No matter how you get here – up or down the coastal highway or across the rural eastern shore along US-50 – its tower-block hotels and massive overcrowding will come as a shock; it is so overgrown, in fact, that its northern reaches now encroach into Delaware. If you're after a quiet weekend by the sea, avoid it like the plague, and take extra care to avoid college vacations. Ocean City might be good for a day … more »