1. Prince George’S Community College Blue Bird Blues Festival
City: Largo, MD
Category: Annual Events & Festivals
Address: 301 Largo Road
Description: It’s a blues festival, but there are also children’s activities, food, and crafts. The one-day event features a half-dozen or so local bands. Admission is free.
2. Prince George’S Community College
City: Largo, MD
Category: Education
Telephone: (301) 336-6000
Address: 301 Largo Road
Description: Another one of Maryland’s fine community colleges, Prince George’s, founded in 1958, has an open admissions policy and a menu of more than 50 areas of study, including accounting, health sciences, education, and law enforcement. Students, numbering more than 38,000, are as diverse as the curriculum, and class enrollment may include a mix of recent high school graduates, midcareer adults, and senior citizens. Summer programs, contract training arrangements, and extension and telecredit courses are all available here. More than half of all credit students transfer to four-year colleges and universities, with the University of Maryland among the top destinations.
3. Nation’S Capital Area Bowling Association
City: Largo, MD
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (301) 499-1693
Address: 9315 Largo Drive West, Suite 110
Description: Are you interested in joining an American Bowling Congress (ABC)–sanctioned league? Call for information about leagues in your community.
4. Six Flags America And Hurricane Harbor
City: Largo, MD
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (301) 249-1500
Address: 13710 Central Avenue
Description: This massive amusement park is jam-packed with rides, shows, and attractions suitable for the entire family. Kids needn’t fret over being too little for this theme/water park’s thrill rides: Looney Tunes Movie Town features rides and a live show especially for children. Crocodile Cal’s Outback Beach House, a five-story interactive play area, offers more than 100 water-powered attractions, including a barrel that dumps 1,000 gallons of water on unsuspecting passersby every few minutes. Still not wet enough? Play on the slides and submarine in the 10,000-square-foot Kids’ Cove pool. You’d be wise to avoid Six Flags on summer weekends, when lines frequently require waits of 45 minutes or longer. Adjacent to Six Flags America is the massive and wildly wet Hurricane Harbor water park. A separate admission fee applies, although a discounted combo ticket is available. Six Flags often runs money-saving promotions, with Coca-Cola, for example, that’ll save you money on admission tickets.