Ocean City, Maryland Ocean City, Maryland Town of Ocean City Flag of Ocean City, Maryland Flag Official seal of Ocean City, Maryland Ocean City is positioned in Maryland Ocean City - Ocean City Ocean City (OC or OCMD), officially the Town of Ocean City, is an Atlantic resort town in Worcester County, Maryland.
Ocean City is widely known in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is a incessant destination for vacationers in that area.
Census, although amid summer weekends the town/city hosts between 320,000 and 345,000 vacationers, and up to 8 million visitors annually. During the summer, Ocean City becomes the second most populated municipality in Maryland, after Baltimore. It is part of the Salisbury urbane area.
6.1 South Ocean City Boardwalk & Trimper's 6.2 North Ocean City High-Rise Condominiums An Ocean City historical marker in August 2013.
Prior to 1870, what is now Ocean City was known as "The Ladies' Resort to the Ocean." It is still presently owned and directed by the Purnell family. Besides the beach and ocean, it offered dancing and billiard rooms to the visitors of its more than 400 rooms, and for years it was the northern-most attraction in Ocean City.
By 1881, a line was instead of athwart Sinepuxent Bay to the shore, bringing rail passengers on the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad directly into the town to a train station on Philadelphia Avenue and returning to larger town/city markets with locally caught fish from Ocean City.
Ocean City's inlet amid the offseason The Ocean City Inlet was formed amid a momentous hurricane in 1933, which also finished the train tracks athwart the Sinepuxent Bay.
The inlet separated what is now Ocean City from Assateague Island.
The Army Corps of Engineers took favor of nature's intervention and made the inlet at the south end of Ocean City permanent.
The inlet eventually helped to establish Ocean City as an meaningful Mid-Atlantic fishing port as it offered easy access to the fishing grounds of the Atlantic Ocean.
In the late 1930s, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged a new channel on the bayside of Ocean City to allow larger boats to have access to Sinepuxent Bay.
The dredge was pumped back onto the shore of Ocean City allowing the creation of Chicago Avenue and St.
Ocean City has turn into a well-known town/city in Maryland due to the rapid expansion of Ocean City that took place amid the post-war boom.
In 1952, with the culmination of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Ocean City became easily accessible to citizens in the Baltimore Washington urbane area.
Ocean City became one of the biggest vacation areas of the East Coast.
In 2002, Ocean City undertook the most recent of many, multimillion-dollar, beach restoration programs, in an attempt to slow the westward migration of its beaches.
A view of the Ocean City boardwalk looking south.
A view of the Ocean City boardwalk at twilight looking north.
Today, the Ocean City region continues to sprawl westward athwart the bay and toward Berlin and Ocean Pines.
Summer employment in Ocean City rises many multiples above that level, supported by a large number of college-age and young grownups - many native to Eastern Europe and Ireland - thriving by various job opportunities.
Today, Ocean City, Maryland has turn into one of the most prominent vacation areas of the East Coast.
In 2006, the town/city erected the Ocean City Firefighter's Memorial to honor small-town firefighters as well as firefighters who died in the September 11 attacks.
In addition to a statue of a firefighter, the monument incorporates a piece of steel beam from one of the towers finished at the World Trade Center. Ocean City is home to the annual Maryland State Firefighters Convention.
Northern Ocean City homes many high-rise beachfront condominiums and hotels such as Century I, The Seawatch, Golden Sands Club, and The Carousel.
A panoramic view of the beach in Ocean City from a condominium amid late-afternoon, as seen in July 2013.
Ocean City now extends just more than 9 mi (14 km) from the southern inlet to the Delaware line.
The southern tip homes the Ocean City Boardwalk.
Ocean City pier and beach Ocean City is positioned at 38 23 29 N 75 04 11 W. Ocean City is on the barrier spit called Fenwick Island, which encompasses Ocean City, South Bethany, Delaware, and Fenwick Island, Delaware.
Ocean City's southern point is an inlet formed by the 1933 Chesapeake Potomac hurricane.
Rainfall and tides swelled the rivers and bays encircling Ocean City until the overflowing water cut a 50-foot crevasse from the bay to the ocean.
Ocean City businessmen had long sought funding to problematic an inlet to support a harbor, so inhabitants seized upon the opportunity and assembled jetties to ensure the city's territory remained divided from what is now Assateague Island. Ocean City has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa), with hot, humid summers, cool winters, and rain fairly evenly distributed throughout the year.
Climate data for Ocean City, Maryland Ocean City's many high-rises offer a view of both the ocean and the bay.
Ocean City Municipal Airport, positioned 3 miles (4.8 km) west of downtown Ocean City serves general aviation and charter airplane .
Full service FBO available at this airport, as well as FAA and Cessna Pilot Center allowed flight school. Nearby Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport provides commercial air service for Ocean City.
50, Ocean Gateway, leaving Ocean City.
Ocean City has only a single primary north south thoroughfare, Maryland Route 528, known as the Coastal Highway for most of its length, and as Philadelphia Avenue at its southern end.
In downtown Ocean City, Baltimore Avenue is one-way northbound and Philadelphia Avenue is one-way southbound.
2nd Street at the Ocean City Inlet.
Near Sacramento, California along US 50 is a mileage sign stating the distance to Ocean City, MD as 3,073 miles (4,946 km).
Delaware Route 54 can also be used to reach Ocean City, as it meets Coastal Highway just north of the border.
Cropper Inlet Parking Lot is positioned just north of the Ocean City Inlet adjoining to the beach and boardwalk and offers 1,200 spaces, with paid parking from April to October.
The West Ocean City Park and Ride offers no-charge parking, with bus service into Ocean City. There are a several smaller paid parking lots and on-street parking enforced by parking meters in the downtown region along with a several paid parking lots in the northern part of Ocean City. Ocean City also has a enhance transit fitness referred to as the "Beach Bus".
The bus begins at the South Division Street Transit Center near the Ocean City Inlet and follows Baltimore Avenue northbound and Philadelphia Avenue southbound through downtown Ocean City to 15th Street.
There is also a park-and-ride service into Ocean City from the West Ocean City Park and Ride.
Patrons can park their cars at the Park and Ride's lot in West Ocean City off U.S.
This service also serves the Tanger Outlets in West Ocean City. During the summer season, the town/city hires additional operators for the highest periods of ridership.
Ocean City's transit service joins with Shore Transit where patrons can travel to or from destinations on the Eastern Shore such as Salisbury and Pocomoke.
This connection point is the West Ocean City Park and Ride in the summer and the S.
Between Mid-May and Mid-September, DART First State's Beach Bus Route 208 bus also joins Ocean City transit at the 144th Street transit center with the Delaware Beaches, running to the Rehoboth Beach Park and Ride.
Here, connections can be made with other Resort Transit routes, regular DART service, or shuttle service from the Cape May-Lewes Ferry to Cape May, New Jersey. Greyhound Lines provides intercity bus service between the Baltimore Greyhound Terminal in Baltimore and the West Ocean City Park and Ride, with service on the portion between Salisbury and Ocean City directed by Shore Transit.
Bay - Runner Shuttle offers shuttle service from the Baltimore-Washington International Airport and the BWI Rail Station to the West Ocean City Park and Ride. The Ocean City Transits fleet consists mainly of Thomas assembled buses.
They do run Eldorado National XHF buses in a 35-foot (11 m) length which run on Coastal Highway in the off season and the West Ocean City Park and Ride in the summer season.
Ocean City did purchase a new order of at least 8 Blue Bird Xcel 102s in a 40-foot (12 m) length recently.
In past years, Ocean City received somewhere about 10-17 Articulated buses that are being retired by MTA Maryland which were assembled by North American Bus Industries in 1995-96.
Ocean City also maintains a fleet of open-air shuttles which run along the Boardwalk called the Boardwalk Tram.
Jolly Roger at The Pier amusement park positioned directly on the famous Ocean City beach.
South Ocean City Boardwalk & Trimper's Originally called the "Atlantic Avenue", the first Ocean City boardwalk was constructed in 1902.
2nd St in South Ocean City (by the Ocean City Life Saving Museum and the Inlet) up to 27th St.
In South Ocean City.
Many years later the boardwalk would suffer extensive storm damage amid Hurricane Gloria in 1985 which pummeled Ocean City with 89 MPH winds, however the boardwalk was refurbished and a concrete sea wall was soon constructed following the storm to prevent further damage, and the aftermath of Hurricane Gloria led to the first phase of extensive beach replenishment projects in Ocean City.
It wouldn't be until 2012, that the Ocean City Boardwalk was damaged again as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
As a historical landmark the Ocean City boardwalk has been persistently rated as one of the "best boardwalks for food" in USA Today, and was rated one of the Top Ten Boardwalks to Visit in the US by National Geographic.
Also positioned in South Ocean City is Trimper's Rides amusement park.
North Ocean City High-Rise Condominiums With a greater number of tourists visiting Ocean City amid the summer months from the neighboring Washington DC, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Western & Northern Maryland areas, many high rise condominiums were first assembled in North Ocean City in the 1970s over-looking the Atlantic Ocean.
The high rise condominiums are presently positioned in North Ocean City, starting with the 21 story 9400 up on 94th St and continue up to the Carousel on 118th St.
The highest of the high rise condominiums in Ocean City is the 25-floor Century I Condominiums. In Ocean City, there have been a several shark sightings.
More and more sharks have been spotted close to shore on beaches in Delaware and Ocean City.
On August 1, 2014, a 12.8 foot long, 1,000-pound tiger shark was spotted in the middle of the Isle of Wight Bay, positioned in Ocean City.
The female shark was nicknamed Septima by scientists, and has traveled over thousands of miles along the East Coast since being tagged in South Carolina. However, even though there has been an increase in shark sightings, there haven't been any recorded fatalities from shark attacks in Ocean City, Maryland.
North Ocean City in recent years has seen more deer sightings and red foxes as well as evolution has increased on the barrier island as well. Ocean City Life-Saving Station There are many historic landmarks positioned in Ocean City, Maryland.
Some historical sites include the anchor from the Sailboat Wreck, the initial Atlantic Hotel and the Ocean City Life Saving Station Museum.
The anchor from the Sailboat Wreck is positioned on the Ocean City Boardwalk.
After a fire that finished the initial and first ever hotel in Ocean City, Maryland, the Atlantic Hotel was rebuilt in 1926 and is one of the earliest and most historic hotels in Ocean City. The Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum is another historical site originally called the Ocean City Life-Saving Station.
Ocean City is known for its "Senior Week" activities.
Recently graduated high school seniors from Maryland and encircling states travel to Ocean City to spend a week with friends and away from parental oversight.
The Town of Ocean City has a "Play it Safe" campaign with scheduled affairs to keep the graduates safe. There are also a number of other affairs that take place amid senior week which include the OC Car Show, Dew Tour, H20 Under 21 Events, and the senior week boardwalk affairs. First opened in June 1976, Ocean Bowl Skatepark in South Ocean City, MD was the very first skate park to open on the East Coast in the United States, and is the longest running municipal skatepark in the United States today.
Aside from the boardwalk, other attractions in Ocean City, Maryland include mini-golfing.
Old Pro Golf, the most well known chain of mini-golf in Ocean City, is positioned at a several different addresses in Ocean City.
The Town of Ocean City has an emergency advisory radio fitness broadcast on two FM frequencies.
The fitness is meant to inform the enhance of emergency conditions such as harsh weather and broadcasts 24-hour improve knowledge amid non-emergency situations. The studios are positioned at the Ocean City Public Safety Building on 65th Street.
Signs throughout Ocean City advise motorists of the station, with flashing lights advising them to tune in for emergency information.
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Ocean City has three sister cities: Town of Ocean City.
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