St. Leonard Creek is the prime cruising destination on the Patuxent River if you are looking for peaceful, uncrowded anchorages with beautiful surroundings.  The high shores and deep water also provide a number of very secure hurricane holes.

Give Rodney Pt., the point of land on starboard after entering,  a lot of room as you continue up the creek.  There is plenty of water to within 15 yards of the opposite shore.  From here on St. Leonard Creek has numerous coves and bights on either side that make very satisfactory anchorages

Our favorite anchorage on St. Leonard is in Rollins Cove on the starboard side of the creek.  Rollins has deep water and a small bar that protects the entrance.  It is open to the west and south west breezes that predominate in the summer and is protected from the northerly breezes of the fall.  The bar also helps to knock down the wakes from boats heading up and down the creek.  When I first started anchoring in Rollins Cove  in 1976 there was little sign of development in the creek.  Just a single dock that belonged to the farm on the north side of the cove with a couple of small boats.  At anchor all you saw were trees along the banks, no sign of homes or development.  Since that time a number of additional homes have been built around the cove, and several of those that existed had many of the trees cut down to give them a view of the cove.  It is not as pristine as in the past, but still one of the nicest places on the entire bay to veg out at anchor.