Garrett Island in Cecil County [Pictures]

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A sign pointing to Garrett Island in Perryville. U.S. 40 runs directly above the island. (Rachel Woolf, Baltimore Sun)

Heading into town from the west on U.S. 40, drivers take a bridge across the Susquehanna River and cut through treetops reaching up from another world below the rumbling road. It's green down there on Garrett Island, and busy with the activity of many creatures, if not people. Read the story: <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-40-garrett-island-20140803,0,1438336.story">Garrett Island -- so close, and yet so far</a>