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Some Baltimore Area Running Routes (8/16/05 Note
- I haven't updated this page in a long time with new routes, but
here is a
great new link to a
GoogleMaps integrated with a pedometer system that will give you an accurate
measurement for your courses. The nice thing is that you can zoom in on an
area and switch from map to satellite photo mode to see paths through parks and
other unmapped areas.)
From Johns Hopkins University, run around the campus. Start at Homewood Field, run east on University Parkway, turn south on Charles, turn right (or west) on Art Museum Drive, bear right on Wyman Park Drive, bear right on San Martin Drive all the way to University Parkway, back to your start. About two miles.
From Johns Hopkins University, run as before, except when you pass the Baltimore Museum of Art bear left on Wyman Park Drive, cross Keswick, and enter Druid Hill Park. From Homewood Field to the tennis courts at Druid Hill is about two miles, plus however many miles you want to tack on inside Druid Hill, plus the return two miles. (Druid Hill discussed below)
From Johns Hopkins University run west on University Parkway until it bears north and becomes Roland Avenue. Keep heading north until the T-intersection at Lake Avenue, and return. Major road crossings at Cold Spring Lane and Northern Parkway, but well lit, well traveled, and a popular mid-town running route. Round trip is about six miles, depending where you start.
From the Inner Harbor, run south on Light Street to Key Highway. At the Baltimore Museum of Industry turn onto Lawrence Street and take it one block, turn left on Fort Avenue. Run east on Fort Avenue to Fort McHenry, run a lap around the sea wall inside the fort, and return to the Inner Harbor. Round trip is roughly six miles.
Druid Hill Park features miles and miles of rolling loops and hills. The perimeter run is between four and five miles, but adding the interior loops around the Mansion House, behind the zoo and on Lake Drive can add several more miles to any course.
Patterson Park features a figure-eight track, with each loop being about a mile in length.
Lake Montebello is about a mile and a quarter around, and has designated biking/running lanes.
Goucher College features a mile-and-a-half rolling loop around the campus, and as an added bonus, has a series of wooded trails for the more adventurous. Well lighted and patrolled by security, the campus is a very safe area to run.
Loch Raven Reservoir is used by many training groups for long runs. Very hilly, the course stretches between Peerce's Plantation on Dulaney Valley Road to Sander's Corner on Cromwell Bridge Road. The round trip from Peerce's to Sander's and back is about nine miles.
The Northern Central Railroad Trail extends from Hunt Valley to York. Check out my NCR trail page for tips on how to run the southern end, but suffice it for now to say that the Trail may be best accessed from Baltimore at Paper Mill Road, Phoenix Road, Sparks, Monkton Station, or White Hall.
Towson to the Inner Harbor or Reverse--This is about eight to nine miles one way, depending on where you start and stop. What you must remember is that Towson is on much higher ground than the harbor, so you will be ascending a series of stepped hills cresting at Joppa Road. From Towson you can run south on York Road to 33rd Street , (5 1/4 miles) then turn right and go by Memorial Stadium and turn left onto St. Paul ( 1/2 mile) and follow it down to the Harbor. (3 miles). If you take Charles Street at the Beltway, it's about four miles to Northern Parkway, another two miles to Johns Hopkins, and another three miles to the Harbor.
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