Elk Neck Peninsula is in
Cecil County, Maryland, between the towns of
Elkton and
North East, Maryland. Native American and colonial travelers often canoed or sailed up the Chesapeake Bay to Elkton, where the Elk River became unnavigable, and then walked or took some form of surface transportation to the Delaware Bay watershed, since this was the shortest surface crossing. Native Americans of the area, including the
Nanticoke and
Lenni Lenape, hunted and fished, as well as established semi-permanent camps.