Hart Miller Island is located at the mouths of Back River and Middle River, where they empty into the Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West...

 east of the City of Baltimore in Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

. It was formerly two separate islands, Hart Island and Miller Island, but it is now almost entirely artificial, and is being filled with dredged material from Baltimore's harbor by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers is a federal agency and a major Army command made up of some 38,000 civilian and military personnel, making it the world's largest public engineering, design and construction management agency...

. It is now in use as Hart-Miller Island State Park, accessible only by boat.

External links

• Maryland Department of Natural Resources website on Hart-Miller Island