41. "' Furnace Mountain "'is the tallest peak of Catoctin Mountain in Loudoun County, Virginia. 42. From Thurmont, an upper loop of the Catoctin Mountain Scenic Byway heads west on MD 550 back to Thurmont. 43. A : The presidential retreat is in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain National Park, about 70 miles northwest of Washington. 44. Likewise, the Secret Service declined to say how close the plane came to the presidential compound in the Catoctin Mountains. 45. Bush greeted the British leader as he got off a helicopter at the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin mountains. 46. Catoctin Creek ( Maryland ) flows due south from about one mile west of town to several miles south of town.47. On the other side of the mountain from Leesburg, in the Catoctin Valley, an entirely different situation had arisen. 48. The weight of history fell with a thud here on this 18th-Century crossroads at the foot of the Catoctin Mountains. 49. White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said in a prepared statement issued from Camp David, five miles from this Catoctin Mountain hamlet. 50. At Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland, a fabled dogwood viewing spot, 89 percent of the trees were dead by 1988.