Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park
Bill Burton Fishing pier (foreground) and Choptank River Bridge
Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park Location in Maryland
Location	Dorchester County & Talbot County, Maryland, United States
Nearest city	Cambridge, Maryland
Area	26 acres (11 ha)
Designation	Maryland state park
Established	1987
Administrator	Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Website	Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park

Bill Burton Fishing Pier State Park (formerly the Choptank River Fishing Pier) is a public recreation area on the Choptank River in Trappe, Maryland. The state park preserves portions of the former Choptank River Bridge as a pier, and includes 25 acres (10 ha) of land upriver from the pier in Talbot County.

The fishing pier was created after the Emerson C. Harrington Bridge, which had been dedicated in 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt, was replaced with the Frederick C. Malkus Bridge in 1987. In 2011, the pier was renamed to honor Bill Burton, a long-time outdoors writer and Chesapeake Bay fishing advocate, who played a significant role in preserving the old bridge as a fishing pier when the new bridge was constructed.