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1. GWYNNS_170904_012.JPG: Gwynns Falls Trail Middle Branch Park at Waterview Avenue The Gwynns Falls Trail at Middle Branch Park is a splendid place to do some birdwatching, learn to row, try your luck fishing, and relax while enjoying views of the city's skyline and harbor activities. To the north, under I-95, the Gwynns Falls for which the trail is named flows into the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay. The Middle Branch is a stopover for birds migrating on the Atlantic Flyway, so spend some time on the wildlife observatory boardwalks located west along the trail. Study the Map-Before you start or resume your journey, study the kiosk map and determine your destination along the 15-mile Gwynns Falls Trail. From this point take the trail east past Harbor Hospital one mile to the trail's current southern terminus at Middle Branch Park at Hanover Street (Trailhead 9). To the west and north, follow the trail 6.2 miles to the hustle and bustle of the Inner Harbor, or, at Ostend Street, head west to Carroll Park, one of Baltimore's large landscaped parks. From here to Carroll Park Golf Course (Trailhead 6) is 4.3 miles. Look for similar kiosks at major access points along the trail. Since the Baltimore Rowing and Water Resource Center opened here in the 1980s, local universities and residents have revived a tradition of rowing competitions on the Middle Branch. Young people canoe on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River associated with the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail. (Inscription above the photo on the lower right of the marker) Old postcard of the Fair View boat on the Patapsco River.
2. GWYNNS_170904_031.JPG: Reviving the Waterfront Here where the Gwynns Falls flows into the Patapsco's Middle Branch, Baltimoreans have come to work and to play over the years. Since the early 1700s this area his been home to mining operations, brickyards, glass factories, and other industries. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, residents came by streetcar to enjoy amusement parks and dance pavilions, picnic grounds and fish houses, swimming beaches and rowing clubs. Crowds watched the Baltimore Black Sox and Elite Giants of the Negro Leagues play at stadiums on Russell Street. In 1977, the city created the Middle Branch Park by consolidating existing shoreside parks and began restoring environmentally degraded sites. Ten years later, the Baltimore Rowing and Water Resources Center opened, reviving a tradition of rowing competitions on the Middle Branch. The Baltimore Black Sox, pictured here in 1929, played at Westport Park and Maryland Park along South Russell Street near the mouth of the Gwynns Falls.
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Wikipedia Description: Gwynns Falls Trail
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Gywnns Falls Trail is a 15-mile (24 km) series of hiking and bicycling trails inside Baltimore, Maryland, named for the Gwynns Falls, whose course it follows, and the surrounding Gwynns Falls Leakin Park it passes through. The trail uses unique alignments, sidepaths on existing streets, and on-street sections. The trail consists of one 10.75-mile (17.30 km) mainline, plus a number of branches, including the Middle Branch Trail, the Hutton Trail, and the Dickeyville Trail. All of these trails carry signage designating them as the Gwynns Falls Trail; their individual names are designated via pavement markers designating their route. The entirety of the Middle Branch Trail, as well as the section of the mainline trail east of the Middle Branch Trail's northern terminus, are part of the East Coast Greenway.

Established in 1998, Gwynns Falls Trail currently operates as a public-private partnership: it is owned and managed by the City of Baltimore, while the Parks & People Foundation coordinates community involvement, volunteer activities and events along the trail.

Route description

Mainline:

The Gwynns Falls Trail mainline (abbreviated "GF") runs 10.75 miles (17.30 km) from Baltimore's Inner Harbor to the Park and Ride facility at the end of Interstate 70, located at the park boundary at the city/county border. The zero mile of the Gwynns Falls Trail mainline is along a sidepath to the east of Light Street, at the Conway Street intersection. Here, the Gwynns Falls Trail encounters the Jones Falls Trail, which travels north on Light Street on the sidepath to eventually enter the Jones Falls valley. At this point, the Gwynns Falls Trail is a part of the East Coast Greenway, as is the Jones Falls Trail, which continues north.

The Gwynns Falls Trail travels south one mile to the Lee Street intersection, where it splits for its two directions due to the presence of one-way streets. The westbound trai ...More...
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