MD Eastern Shore in August
 

Have some unused southwest airlines tickets and looking to use them in aug. flying into bwi is a possibility so wondering if St Michaels or Easton MD would be a good destination for five days of r&r. Is it very hot, humid and uncomfortable in mid-august?

I think 5 days is a bit long to spend in any of those places, though they are certainly worth a visit. There are good restaurants, charming B&Bs, nice shops, and some history (e.g. Chesapeake Maritime Museum in St. Michaels), but after about a day, you've pretty much seen it all.

One thing to consider is staying at the Hyatt Chesapeake in Cambridge and using it as a base. It's a full-service resort, right on the water, perfect for R&R (including spa services). It's close enough to the Eastern Shore towns of Easton, Oxford and St. Michaels to do day trips from there.

You might also want to consider adding Annapolis to your itinerary.

It can be quite hot and humid in mid-August, though being on the water will have a moderating effect. Hot and humid is seasonable for August, but anything is possible. Indeed, judging from this very cool spring, it seems like it's never going to get warm in Chesapeake country!!

I agree with Callaloo's suggestions for visiting the area.

And while anything is possible, it's a virtual certainty that August will be hot and humid, moderated only slightly by being near the water. I just got back from a few days in the southwest's early heatwave. 98 degrees is hot, no question, but 98 degrees and 90% humidity is brutal.

i live in st. michaels and it is often the humidity that can be overbearing in august. last summer, we didn't have too many 90+ deg days but it was incredibly humid all summer long.

st. michaels, easton and oxford are small towns. there are fantastic restaurants and cute little shops and beautiful water views. if you are really looking to just hang out and relax, it would be a nice place. but if you need a lot of different things to do, 5 days will probably be too much.

there are a few public golf courses, you can charter a boat, rent kayaks, and there are a few spas. frankly, i don't think the hyatt in cambridge offers you any more than you get elsewhere in the area. easton and st. michaels are so much nicer than cambridge which is still basically a waterman town while the others have become more tourist and retirement destinations. annapolis is 45 min to an hour drive (as long as you don't get stuck in bridge traffic).

It will be hot and humid but the shore breezes could help a bit. Five days on the Eastern shore will be all about R&R. We stayed in Chestertown. I remember spending an entire afternoon poking about an old graveyard looking for the marker "Talleulah Bankhead".

When we wanted some "shore" we hoped on over to Rehoboth. It was rather honkey tonk but landed well in our East Coast now West Coast hearts.

As someone who lives on the Shore, I can tell you that five days in one place is a little long. Your best bet is to rent a car and do day trips or B&Bs. Places of note- St. Michaels, touristy, home of the Waterman's museum and with several nice places to eat; Tilghman Island, an old waterman's haunt that is still genuine and home to Harrison's Chesapeake Inn; Smith Island, the most famous waterman's society on the Shore with it's one-of-a-kind dialect; Secretary, oyster heaven and home to the Suicide Bridge restaurant; Kent Island, settled about 1635, home to several good restaurants, and a place where you can go out on a cruise; Chestertown, a laid back but pretty college town on the Chester River; the waterman's town of Rock Hall, twenty miles southwest of Chestertown; the Blackwater Refuge, a swampland south of Cambridge with plenty of birds and other wildlife; the quaint town of Oxford, home of the Robert Morris Inn, crab cake nirvanna; and Easton, a nice small town with a few top-notch restaurants but not very scenic in itself.

Do make a trip to Watermans for great crab is a very casual atmosphere. It's in Rock Hall.

Sounds like we should put off going to the MD shore for another time of year. We live in the desert southwest and are looking for some respite from the heat. We just got back from Anguilla where it was very hot, humid and sticky, with nary a breeze, so don't think we would want something similar in August. Maybe Fall would be a better time for this trip. So will continue my search for an August destination. Maybe the Oregon coast since we can fly into PDX on Southwest.

The best time to visit Maryland's eastern shore is late-April thru mid-June and late-September thru late-October. The Canadian Geese return in mid-October and leave in mid-March if you enjoy their presence.

Orange Travel Cat~How about Seattle with a drive to Vancouver(about 3 hours).
SW does fly into SeaTac now. There is car rental right at the airport and the city is great in the summer. You can explore the San Juan Islands and/or Victoria/Vancouver.