Chesapeake Bay Tray

Lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay is North America’s largest estuary, with the northern portion starting in the state of Maryland and the southern region reaching down past Virginia. Features of the Chesapeake Bay include more than 150 major rivers and streams, all of which flow into the bay’s massive drainage basin of 64,299 square miles. The drainage basin itself covers parts of six US states. Aside from Maryland and Virginia, it also includes New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and the entirety of Washington D.C.