Our friends Jeff and Christa recently moved to Frederick across the street from the Monocacy Blvd. boat ramp. Since Chad was at the beach, I decided to join Jeff/Christa for a trip down the Monocacy.
We started shortly after noon. Three of us put in at the boat ramp at Devilbiss Road. We then leisurely paddled about 6 miles to the take-out point at the Monocacy Blvd. bridge. Both the launch and the take out were easy. The river was high and moving faster than normal but still somewhat slow. It was also very muddy. We brought along a floating cooler, named Boozey, that we towed behind us. I did notice a slight drag on the kayak from towing the cooler but it wasn't too bad.
The trip took us about 3-3.5 hours. We saw some cool rock formations along the banks. Part of what I love about the Monocacy is that it feels like a private river with no distractions/light traffic. We saw some Kingfishers, Osprey, Herons. A train crossed the bridge right as we were going under it so we wave to all the passengers.
Overall it was a very easy paddle and one that would be good to do on short notice.
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