Spring Gap is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States.

[3] Spring Gap is located in the valley of the North Branch Potomac River along the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal at mile marker 173.

Just west of the community is the National Park Service Spring Gap Recreation Area, which offers camping sites and a place to relax for hikers and bikers of the C&O towpath.

The Spring Gap Recreation Area is a popular location to pick up, drop off, or park when hiking or biking the C&O canal towpath to or from Cumberland, 11 miles (18 km) upriver.

The mainline CSX railroad runs up the Potomac valley across the river from Spring Gap in West Virginia.