1906-75 Western Maryland Stickpile (GreenRidge) Tunnel

Geographic North Portal: (Satellite)

Geographic South Portal: (Satellite)

When I entered Stickpile Tunnel in Google Maps, it took me to Indigo Tunnel. Fortunately, a USGS map took me to the correct location.

The black blob in the upper-left corner of this view from the C&O Canal Towpath Trail may be the south portal of the tunnel.

Street View, Apr 2016

The tunnel was, and still is, framed with timber.

HAER MD-175-81
Interior of Tunnel No. 1356, Stick Pile Tunnel showing timber framing and missing posts, looking northeast. - Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch, from WM milepost 125 to 160, Pearre, Washington County, MD

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It was built in 1906 and abandoned in 1975. It is 1706,5' (520m) long.
Linda encountered a strange streaming fog about 3/4 of the way through. She also recorded some weird noises.

Steve 1828 Flickr, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) via OnlyInYourState

Note that Steve's photo below has a much smaller gate than Linda's video above shows. It was taken on June 4, 2011.

Steve 1828 Flickr, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) 

Stickpile Tunnel is in the upper-left quadrant of this image. I included the B&O Stuart & Randolph Tunnels and the abandoned C&O Canal to document that we are in the B&O Paw Paw Bends.

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I zoomed into the Stickpile Tunnel because it shows the southern portal to be further inland than my satellite location. Fortunately, before I deleted my street view at the top of these notes, I did some more research. I think the topo map is wrong. I normally don't see errors like this in the topo maps.

Digitally Zoomed

River Explorer agrees that the portal is south of Kasecamp Road rather than up by Carroll Road.

RiverExplorer

And I found a couple of Google Earth images that show the portal is near the C&O Canal.

Google Earth, Apr 2025

Google Earth, Apr 2008