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No hotels? Md. parks offer lodging during inauguration

One of the rooms you can rent in during Inauguration at Maryland's parks.
One of the rooms you can rent during inauguration at Maryland’s parks. (WTOP/Kate Ryan)
Carolyn Cottage in Rockwood Manor in Montgomery County, Maryland. Accommodations are available in Maryland's parks during the Inauguration. (WTOP/Kate Ryan)
Carolyn Cottage, in Rockwood Manor in Montgomery County, Maryland. Accommodations are available in Maryland’s parks during the inauguration. (WTOP/Kate Ryan)
The kitchen in Carolyn Cottage in Rockwood Manor in Montgomery County, Maryland. Accommodations are available at Maryland Parks during Inaguration. (WTOP/Kate Ryan)
The kitchen in Carolyn Cottage, in Rockwood Manor in Montgomery County, Maryland. Accommodations are available at Maryland Parks during the inauguration. (WTOP/Kate Ryan)
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One of the rooms you can rent in during Inauguration at Maryland's parks.
Carolyn Cottage in Rockwood Manor in Montgomery County, Maryland. Accommodations are available in Maryland's parks during the Inauguration. (WTOP/Kate Ryan)
The kitchen in Carolyn Cottage in Rockwood Manor in Montgomery County, Maryland. Accommodations are available at Maryland Parks during Inaguration. (WTOP/Kate Ryan)

WASHINGTON 鈥 You don鈥檛 need to break the bank to enjoy an inauguration vacation: Montgomery County鈥檚 parks department is .

For just $36 to $51 dollars you can hook up your RV at one of 26 electric sites in Clarksburg鈥檚 Little Bennett Regional Park. But if you鈥檙e looking for a more conventional place to stay during the presidential inauguration, consider Potomac鈥檚 Rockwood Manor. It used to be the Girl Scouts鈥 national headquarters.

鈥淪o Rockwood Manor is used as an event center in Maryland,鈥 said Nancy Cadigan, the regional operations manager for the enterprise division of Montgomery Parks.

Rockwood has a variety of accommodations. 鈥淲e have regular hotel-style accommodations that can sleep thirty seven鈥 but in addition, Cadigan said, 鈥淲e have three bunkhouse cabins and each of those cabins with bunk beds can sleep up to 28 people per cabin.鈥

Prices for the hotel-type rooms run from $115 to $150 per night plus tax, and Cadigan adds, 鈥淲e are not raising our rates. These are our normal rates at any time of year this is what we would charge.鈥

For an entire bunkhouse, the rates would top out at $520 a night for the dorm-style cabins. There is also the original caretakers鈥 home known as The French House. Rates for the French House range from $240 to $290 a night.

 

Kate Ryan

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