Deer Creek runs through some of the prettiest countryside in Maryland with a pleasant mixture of woodlands, working farms, and country estates. This far upper portion of the stream starts out by twisting about a flat, agricultural bottomland fringed by pastoral or forested hillsides. The hillsides then converge at Green Road, and for the remaining miles Deer Creek rushes through a chain of wild, wooded ravines, offering the paddler plenty of quiet and solitude. A fascinating display of sharp, jagged rock formations and cool, hemlock-shaded bends also decorate the scenery. Numerous riffles and easy rapids, rock gardens, boulders, and ledges fill the streambed with a swift current in between. Fences and occasional fallen trees may require a couple carries as well as a 12-foot dam at Eden Mill which should be portaged on the left.