Camp Misty Mount: A Place for Regrowth-- By looking at Camp
Misty Mount: A Place for Regrowth, students can more easily
appreciate a successful WPA project that continues to meet the
recreational needs of individuals and organized groups and has
helped the forest to regrow. National Park Service - Catoctin
Mountain Park is a unit of the National Park System. The park's
Web site details the history of the park and visitation
information. Included on the site are features on the Works
Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps,
such retreats as Camp David and Camp Misty Mount, and the role
of the charcoal/iron industries in the Catoctin Mountain Park. -
The National Park Service's Park Geology Web site offers a brief
history of the Catoctin Mountains including information on the
different inhabitants who affected the land. - The National Park
Service's History Web page provides an on-line book titled, The
Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Park Service,
1933-1942: An Administrative Hi