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Best Sunset Beaches in Maryland

For sunset over water in Maryland, you want the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay — any beach where you're looking west across open water. Matapeake Beach has dramatic Bay Bridge silhouettes at sunset. Point Lookout gives you the widest uninterrupted western horizon. Terrapin Beach puts the bridge right in the scene. Atlantic beaches (Assateague, Ocean City) face east, so sunset there is over the back bay or marshland, not the ocean — beautiful but different.