Local Salisbury Famliy Wins Park Quest East

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ new Park Quest summer family adventure kicked off on Saturday, May 24 and lasted for 8 weeks. Teams comprised of at least one team member under 16 years of age and one adult, visited six state parks on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and took part in a variety of activities such as paddling quiet streams, hiking trails in search of letter boxes, finding items on a scavenger hunt and fishing to complete their Park Quest passport. All teams to complete the six adventures were invited to compete in the finale event in attempts to win prize packages.

Visitors to Pocomoke River State Park and Pocomoke State Forest enjoyed boating, fishing, camping, picnicking, swimming, hiking, and bird and wildlife watching amongst 14,753 wooded acres along the Pocomoke River in the Southwestern section of Worcester County, between Snow Hill and Pocomoke City. The park's combination of swamp and forest is home to a great variety of plants and animals, including white dogwood and pink laurel, river otters and bald eagles, and more than 50 fish species.

The Greenlees also know as The Might Four won the Park Quest Challenge on Saturday.

"This program was a wonderful experience for my family. We visited 6 parks on the Eastern Shore and discovered the beauty that the shore has to offer."

The Greenlees are originally from New York, (Long Island) and moved to Salisbury 2 years ago. The idea of this event was to create interest from people WITHIN the State of Maryland to visit their State Parks. All too often people visit from out of state and this event encouraged what they had hoped to be 170 Families for the event. However, 48 Families completed the program. Events included 20 questions from one location about leaves, trees and wildlife from one Park. Another tested your skills on how fast you could put up a tent. The Greenlees constructed their is 3 minutes and seventeen seconds! They said the Rangers were out of this world.

They read about the event in the Chesapeaks East Magazine and ultimately won 4 Bicycles. Other prizes included, a canoe, a kayak, camping gear for a family of four, a fishing trip on the Chesapeake Bay as well as fishing gear. In order to qualify you must have a child under the age of 16 years old.

You can visit the DNR Website HERE to see more about this event. They plan on having more of these. However, the next time will be more in the Baltimore area.

Congratulations to the Greenlees Family. We look forward to some photos of the event. It's stories like this that simply blow away the "Larsons," doesn't it?