Give the Gift of Maryland
If you are looking for a gift that truly keeps on giving, let this guide to extraordinary experiences in Maryland be your shopping list. A visit to Maryland's museums, music halls, adventure parks, cruises, and crawls will be far more memorable than another pair of socks. As an added bonus, you’ll feel good knowing that your purchase helps support small businesses.
Disclaimer: The prices listed on this page are subject to change. Additional packages and deals may be available.
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State-wide
- Restaurant Association of Maryland
- Gift: Dine Out, Maryland Gift Certificate to any of hundreds of restaurants located across the state from casual to fine dining
- Price: $10, $25, $50, and $100
- State Parks Pass
- Gift: Unlimited day-passes & boat launch; discounts at concessions
- Price:
- Resident — $75
- Out-of-state — $100
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Allegany County
- Cumberland Theatre
- Gift: Season Subscription Ticket
- Tracks and Yaks
- Gift: Gift card for 2.5 hour railbike excursion
- Price: $99 and up
- Wheelzup Adventures
- Gift: Gift card
- Price: Customizable
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Anne Arundel County
Jennifer Kaye
- Medieval Times
- Gift: Ticket package
- Sunset Cruise to Cruise
- Gift: Gift Card
- Price: $75 and up
- Twisted History Tavern Tour of Annapolis
- Gift: Gift Card
- Price: $22
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Baltimore County
@gretchens_naturepics
- Asian Arts & Culture Center
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $25 and up
- Baltimore County Sailing School
- Gift: Adult and Family Beginners Course
- Price: $250
- Magooby's Joke House
- Gift: Gift card
- Price: $25 and up
- Sky Zone
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $14.99 and up
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Baltimore City
@stadiumswithmysons
- Maryland Zoo In Baltimore
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $69 and up
- National Aquarium
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $95 and up
- Port Discovery Children's Museum
- Gift: Family Membership
- Price: $190 and up
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Calvert County
- Calvert Marine Museum
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $50 and up
- Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $55 and up
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Caroline County
- Fiber Arts Center of the Eastern Shore
- Gift: Class enrollment (quilting, rug braiding, etc.)
- Price: $40 and up
- Outstanding Dreams Farm
- Gift: Alpaca farm tours
- Price: $25
- Schrader’s Outdoors
- Gift: Sporting Clays Course
- Price: $15.00 per hour/per person
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Carroll County
Carroll County Office of Tourism
- Carroll County Arts Council
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $12 and up
- Piney Run Park & Nature Center
- Gift: Entrance and/or Boat Launch Pass
- Price:
- Resident - $6
- Non-resident - $12
- Seasonal boat launch pass — $10/day or $65/
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Cecil County
Plumpton Park Zoo
- Chesapeake City Water Tours
- Gift: Sunset cruises, daily sightseeing tours, craft beer & wine tastings, rum & reggae cruise, live music and more!
- Fairwinds Farm & Stables
- Gift: One-hour Trail Ride
- Price: $40 per person
- Plumpton Park Zoo
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Charles County
@thismoderngirl
- Southern Maryland Blue Crab Baseball
- Gift: Game tickets
- Price: $15 (behind home plate seats)
- Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay Tours
- Gift: Guided Kayak Tour
- Price: $60 and up
- James E. Richmond Science Center
- Gift: Planetarium sky show
- Price: $8
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Dorchester County
- Blackwater Adventures - Layton’s Chance Winery
- Gift: Guided bike tours
- Price: $75
- Learn to Fish, Filet, Fry (with wine tasting)
- Gift: Tour - Fish and prepare your catch
- Price: $150
- Skipjack Nathan of Dorchester Cruise
- Gift: Sailing Cruise
- Price: $40 and up
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Frederick County
Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo
- Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $99 and up
- Warehouse Cinemas
- Gift: Gift Card
- Weinberg Center for the Arts
- Gift: Membership
- Price $35 and up
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Garrett County
Garrett County Chamber of Commerce
- Adventure Sports Center International
- Gift: Whitewater rafting on world’s only mountain top recirculating whitewater course
- Price: $109 per person
- All Earth Eco Tours
- Gift: Gift Certificate (kayak tours, guided hikes, photography tours, snowshoeing, nature events, etc.)
- Wisp Resort
- Gift: Lodging and family-friendly activity packages
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Harford County
Ladew Gardens
- Havre de Grace Decoy Museum
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $50 and up
- Ladew Gardens
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $55 and up
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Howard County
@izzyfotog
- Autobahn Indoor GoKart Racing
- Gift: 3 Race Pack
- Price: $60 and up
- Spirits Pub Crawl
- Gift: Gift card for a ghost tour, pub crawl, or show
- Toby’s Dinner Theatre
- Gift: Dinner and show
- Price: $79 and up
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Kent County
Shardana Sailing Charters
- Biplane Air Tours from Massey Aerodrome
- Gift: Fly in a 1944 Stearman open cockpit biplane
- Price: $80 and up
- Equine Encounter at Airy Hill Stables
- Gift: A Date With Horses
- Price: $160
- Luxury Sailing Charter Aboard Shardana
- Gift: ½ Day Luxury Sailing Charter on the Chesapeake Bay
- Price: $450
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Montgomery County
Jim Morris
- Adventure Park at Sandy Spring
- Gift: Gift Ticket Packs or Adventure Anytime Memberships
- The Music Center at Strathmore
- Gift: Gift Membership
- Price: $65 and up
- Topgolf Germantown
- Gift: Gift card
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Prince George's County
Six Flags America
- College Park Aviation Museum
- Gift: Membership
- Price: Baron's Club (one adult and one child) — $25
- Piscataway Park Fairy Trail (managed by the Accokeek Foundation)
- Gift: Tour package
- Six Flags America
- Gift: Summer Passes
- Price: $75 and up with add on options
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Queen Anne's County
Queenstown Harbor
- Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center Guided Kayak Tours
- Gift: Guided wetlands kayak tour
- Price: $15 members; $20 non-members
- Off Da’ Hook Charters
- Gift: Charter Boat Fishing Excursion
- Play 18 holes of Golf at Queenstown Harbor
- Gift: Round of golf
- Price: Varies per season
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Saint Mary’s County
@abitslippy
- Flight Simulator Experience at Patuxent River Naval Air Station
- Gift: Experience flight in real F-14 cockpits
- Price: Admission - $10 and up, Memberships - $50 and up
- Guided Tour at Piney Point Lighthouse Park
- Gift: Guided tour of the museum, Potomac River Maritime Exhibit, Keepers Quarters and Lighthouse.
- Price: $7
- Horseback Rides at Greenwell State Park & Foundation (Designated Maryland Horse Discovery Center)
- Gift: Trail rides
- Price: $60 and up
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Somerset County
@erocrunfaster
- Crisfield Heritage Foundation
- Gift: Membership to Tawes Museum and Ward Brothers Museum
- Price: $35 and up
- Cruising & Crabs on Smith Island
- Gift: Ferry Boat cruise to Maryland’s only island accessible only by boat with Captain Tyler’s Feast at Bayside Inn (from Crisfield)
- Price: $99 and up
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Talbot County
Avalon Foundation
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Group Tours and River Cruises
- Gift: 45-minute cruise of Miles River
- Avalon Theatre
- Gift: tickets to a musical performance
- Price: $30 and up
- Spa & Sail Escape Package for Lovers
- Gift: Includes a one-hour couples’ massage at the Harbour Inn, Marina & Spa. You also enjoy a choice between our Sunset Champagne Cruise aboard the Selina II with an open bar and light hors-d’oeuvres, or a Day Sail and a surprise Selina II boat tour souvenir.
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Washington County
- Antietam National Battlefield Tour
- Gift: Guided tour of Antietam
- Price: $80 and up
- Attend Performance at Maryland Theatre
- Gift: Music Concert, Comedians, Dance Performance
- Price: varies depending on performer(s)
- Hagerstown Speedway Car Racing (seasonal March-early September)
- Gift: Spend an evening watching late model & stock car races on a dirt track
- Price: $15 and up
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Wicomico County
@courteisenhart
- Salisbury Zoo
- Gift: Membership
- Price: $30 and up
- Carve & Paint an Antiqued Shorebird with Ross Smoker at the Ward Wildfowl Museum
- Gift: two-day carving class
- Price: $250 and up
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Worcester County
The Mermaid Museum
- Glass blowing ornament classes with artist Jeffrey Auxer
- Gift: Make your own blown-glass ornament
- Price: $30
- Mermaid Museum
- Gift: Visit the country’s first Mermaid Museum
- Price: $11
- Trimper’s Rides Mega Pass
- Gift: All day pass for Trimper’s boardwalk rides, including the 1912 Herschell Spilman Grand Carousel
- Price: $49
