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RoadTrip A Trail Full of Charm in

Some of the stone dwellings in the historical neighborhood of Dickeyville sheltered soldiers wounded in the War of 1812.

Dickeyville PARKWAY WETHEREDSVILLE ROAD E U N All aboard the miniature E TrailTrailTrail V A steam train run by the K WIN R DSOR MILL ROAD A AV N STREET HILTON Chesapeake & P O EN E TT U A HU E GLE Allegheny Steam T ES Preservation Society. R DR O I F V RIDGETOP RD. . E N SECURITY BOULEVARD Leakin Park F RANKLINT RAN s Bayard Street, an on-road leg of the trail. F OW KL N Gwynns Falls Park IN A mural brighten 70 T O W Carrie N Murray Nature Center 83 UE ROAD injured anim , which rescues N R als, is home to a m VE O A A E Y D Zool the Eurasian eagle owl, a baldena geagle,erie that a b ID N A includes S INA S W H E I con L W L strictor and G T a raven oa IN COOKS LANE O whose 83 N entertains Ravens football fans recat halftime.orded “caw” P A R K 95 W 70 Thomas DeKay Winans constructed A the Crimea Estate — including the Y Detailed area Baltimore three-story stone mansion Orianda EDMONDSON AVENUE 270 House and a wooden chapel with a 1 95 Russian motif — in the early 1850s, 97 Feel the (small) splash 1 after he helped construct a railroad VIRGINIA 50

of Gwynns Falls. T from St. Petersburg to Moscow. E L D.C. L I 66 C Western O T T Cemetery STREE E Explore D Mount Clare Museum House G R 95 IV

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. S AVENUE HAMBURG STREET KEN WIL Carroll M&T Bank KEY HIGHWAY HENRIETTA WARREN Park BAYARD STREET Stadium WHERE: Gwynns Falls Trail in Baltimore. AVE. STREET W

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Golf Course . stadium for the birds. wide asphalt paths. Only a span called the Mill- MONROE STREET STREET race is unpaved. Walkers, cyclists and others RIDGELY ST. WARNERST. The 185-foot-tall M&T Bank Stadium HOW FAR: About 15 miles from start to finish. use the path, which steers onto city streets af- WASHINGTON BOULEVARD RUSSELL ST. 395 holds 70,107 (mostly Ravens) fans and ter Carroll Park. towers more than two stories over its 95 neighbor, Oriole Park at Camden Yards. hhh, can you keep a secret? Gwynns Falls “There are so many hidden treasures in this Trail.

park and along the trail,” says Michael Straw- ST. HANOVER “It’s one of those well-kept secrets,” says bridge, trail manager for the Baltimore City CLARE S 295 Alex Pilecki, a Baltimorean who exercises his grey- Department of Recreation and Parks. IS ST. 95 hounds along the path in Leakin Park. And more could be coming. According to APOL ROAD ANN The nearly 15-mile trail, which was built eight plans, the path will be connected to Mary- T EE TR years ago by the city and its partners, begins as a land’s popular BWI Trail within the next five L S WEL greenway in Leakin Park, near Baltimore’s south- years, and the stretch of waterfront between CROM INSULATOR DRIVE western edge. It then follows Gwynns Falls Creek, Kloman Street and the is slated KLOMAN STREET M idd veers toward the and peters out by a for redevelopment. If that happens, the secret le B Nick’s Fish House is a ran small concrete fishing pier. Before its unceremoni- of Gwynns Falls Trail will certainly be out. ch quick hop over the Vietnam P Veterans Memorial Bridge ous finish, however, the path meanders through WAT a — Barbara J. Saffir ERVIEW ta AV p near the trail’s end. In warm one of the largest urban woodland parks on the EN sc Gywnns Falls Trail. Free. 410-396-0440. www. UE o weather, the waterside East Coast, runs past more than 30 diverse neigh- R gwynnsfallstrail.org. Open daily from dawn to dusk. iv restaurant serves brews, e borhoods and zips along miles of Baltimore water- HANOVER STREET r crabs and other fare at picnic

front. POT tables along the yacht basin. “When you’re on it, you don’t think you’re in a Road Trip maps are available at EE STREET city for much of the time,” says Bob Moore, a www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, Second Chance I to “deconstruct” buildings,nc., which is s trains displaced wo member of the Gwynns Falls Trail Council, “be- as are addresses and hours of operation (be rkers salvaged doors and countless architecturaltuffed with ab treasuresout 4,000 cause it’s so parklike and so green.” sure to check before you go). Have an idea rescued from demolished Paddle like a pro with a lesson from the Baltimore The western section of the trail tunnels through for a trip? E-mail [email protected]. buildings. Rowing Club, or wait until it hosts National Learn to Row Day on June 9 (registration required). WEDNESDAY IN STYLE Escapes pulls off I-95 to visit a Delaware college town. MAP BY JEROME COOKSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; PHOTOS BY BARBARA J. SAFFIR FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

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