(shared with Maryland)

This AVA is located in Washington County in west-central Maryland and Franklin and Cumberland counties in south-central Pennsylvania. The Cumberland Valley is an 80 miles (130 km) long valley which bends in a northeasterly direction from the Potomac River in Washington County, Maryland, toward the Susquehanna River in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The valley is bordered on the southeast by South Mountain, which is the northernmost extension of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and on the northwest by the Allegheny Mountain complex. The principal streams that drain the valley are Conococheague Creek and Antietam Creek, tributaries of the Potomac River, and Conodoguinet Creek and Yellow Breeches Creek, tributaries of the Susquehanna River. The land drained by these streams shares similar geological history, topographical features, soils, and climatic conditions.

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