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WIldlife Loop and enter the gravel Service Road. After about 0.7 miles you will reach the entrance to the Service Road. The Wildlife Loop parking lot is the first left after entering Assateague Island.ĬLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WILDLIFE LOOP TRAIL PARKING LOT ON GOOGLE MAPSĮntering the Wildlife Loop trail hang a left, so that you are traversing the loop clockwise. The Service Road is located off of the 'Wildlife Loop' trail. The North Corral is located several miles up the 'Service Road'.

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Please note that the North Corral is not accessible to the public during the roundup.Īfter the round up is complete, and the ponies are safely in the corral, it is possible to access the North Corral to view the ponies but it will requireĪbout a 3 mile hike (one-way) or combination of 2 mile bike ride plus 1 mile hike.

Trolley Service with last call at 11pm in front of Carnival Grounds ($0.50 per ride)Ībout 100 adult ponies and their foals reside a little further north on the Assateague Island, and will be herded into the North Corral, Sunday morning beginning at about 6:00 AM.

Chincoteague Farmers & Artisans Market, CCA Community Center for the Arts, 6309 Church Street, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM.

Randy Lee Ashcraft & the Saltwater Cowboys.

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Music at the Dock: FREE SUMMER CONCERT in ROBERT REED WATERFRONT PARK.

Chincoteague Fireman's Carnival (7pm - 11pm at the Carnival Grounds).

Chincoteague Island Blueberry Festival (9am - 4:30pm at the Chincoteague Center, 6155 Community Drive).

Other activities on Chincoteague Island Saturday:Ĭheck our Upcoming Events page for details. The ponies will remain in the South Corral, and can be viewed by the public, until the Pony Swim on Wednesday morning. Parking lot until all the ponies are in the corral and the gates are closed. If you park in the Woodland Trail parking lot, please note that once the gates are open for the ponies to enter the corral, your vehicle will not be able to leave the The South Corral is accessible to the public. The South Corral is located on Assateague, in front of the Woodland Trail parking lot, just off the road that leads to the beach. The Saltwater Cowboys will begin rounding them up into the South Corral Saturday morning beginning at about 7:00 AM. The weekend prior to Wednesday's Pony Swim, 'Saltwater Cowboys' on horseback will begin to round up the approximately 150 adult wild ponies that live on Assateague Island,Īlong with the 60 to 70 foals that were born in the spring.Ībout 50 adult ponies and their foals live on the southern end of Assateague Island. Admission is free and is first come, first served. Misty of Chincoteague will be showing, at 11:00 am daily, at the Island Theater during pony penning week (Mon - Fri).

The Chincoteague Fireman's Carnival - with rides, games, raffles, and lots of good food - will be open each night (Mon - Sat) during pony penning week beginning at 7pm. The festivities kick-off the Saturday before the Pony Swim with the Southern Herd Roundup, and conclude the Friday after the Pony Swim when the Ponies swim back to Assateague.

For more information about the Chincoteague Ponies, including their history and the origins of the modern day Pony Swim, check out our Scroll down for a complete guide to theĬhincoteague Pony Swim. Tens of thousands of spectators from around the world gather on Chincoteague Island each year to watch this annual tradition. The Chincoteague Pony Swim was made famous by Marguerite Henry's ' Misty of Chincoteague'. Pony Swim Guide Sponsor Wednesday Jwill mark the 98th year of Chincoteague's annual Pony Swim The population of the villages had declined by about 1922.A complete guide to the week long festivities during Chincoteague Island's World Famous Pony Swim! This village was partially isolated and villagers were able to till ground for vegetables, and kept horses, sheep, hogs, chickens, and ducks. In 1890 the county constructed a one-room school and hired a single teacher for grades one through six. Assateague Village located below the lighthouse, was the largest community on the island. The village of Green Run had a resort hotel which provided livelihood for many. It was then combined with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard. The USLSS was comprised of four stations on Assateague from 1875 until 1915. The majority of residents in these small villages supported themselves working as watermen or for the United States Life-Saving Service. Of these, the most notable were Green Run, located in the present day Maryland district, and Assateague Village, located in the present day Virginia district. Prior to this split of land, beginning in about the late 1850’s, there had been a few small but not permanent communities.

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