Small town life, wide-open fields, antiquing alongside funky and fine art galleries, dining on historic streets, strolling up Carroll Creek, shopping in surrounding major chain stores– all this can be yours an hour from downtown Washington, D.C., if you buy or rent a condo in Frederick, MD.
The city, county seat for Frederick County, is the kind of place where you can hang your hat at the local diner, forget it, and find the proprietor holding it for you when you return three days later. Laid back and old-fashioned, the early 18th Century streets will make you want to put your feet up on a bench along Carroll Creek and forget about the time of day. Minutes from the center of the city lie condo developments, many garden-style, with lush green natural lawns few these days can savor so close to a major metropolitan area.
Preserved Civil War battlefields nearby guarantee unbroken countryside with Monocacy, just outside city limits, and Antietam and Gettysburg, each about 35 minutes away. Frederick condos for sale include brand-new units that blend with the traditional styles in the area, but feature up-to-date features, many luxury, though affordable. Frederick condos for rent are also available. Choose a Frederick condo for rent for vacation and come home to pristine, spacious accommodations after a day boating the Monocacy River, drive through 19th and 20th Century covered bridges throughout the County, skiing at popular resorts, such as in Pennsylvania or West Virginia, one-to-three hours away or hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Commute just 45 minutes to DC’s Union Station via the MARC train station in downtown Frederick. The Metro subway from Union Station will take you just about anywhere in DC and in metropolitan Virginia and Maryland.
Frederick is along the junction of Interstate 70, 270 and Highway 40, 45 minutes from Baltimore and about an hour from Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, aside the Chesapeake Bay.
You’ll know your neighbors in Frederick, but you’ll also discover visitors from DC making the excursion for top-rated fine dining even if in casual fashion sitting outdoors next to potted flowering plants.
About 60,000 people with a $57,000 median family income live in Frederick.
Pick your own fruit at orchards throughout the area come summer and fall. Many are open year-round for farm-jarred jellies and other goods. Scout bargains at flea markets—you might find a Civil War relic worth much more. Learn how to fly or sightsee the sumptuous landscape by helicopter at the local heliport. You’ll be 15 minutes from Adventure Park USA in New Market, 22 from Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo in Thurmont, at the foothills of Camp David, and 25 from historic Harper’s Ferry, WV.
Artists and art-lovers are drawn to Frederick for its theater, exhibitions and classes. Promenade the river walk to take in the award-winning trompe l'oeil mural. Even if you’ve rarely made it a point to go to an art museum, you and your kids will find many opportunities to visit the Cultural Arts Center and Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center. Like plays? You’ll be busy between the Maryland Shakespeare Festival and Maryland Ensemble Theater. Do movies in style like in 1926 at Weinberg Center for the Arts, the restored Frederick movie palace, a venue also for music and dance.
Pen in your calendar the Frederick Festival of the Arts and the Great Frederick Fair, one of the nation’s oldest county agricultural fairs. Make a Frederick condo for sale or a Frederick condo for rent your home and your calendar will be full but your lifestyle will be easy. |
