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Rethinking Baltimore's Druid Hill Park

Northwest Baltimore is home to the remarkable 745-acre Druid Hill Park. It was formally organized just prior to the Civil War around the same date as New York’s Central Park. Grand Victorian buildings and monuments serve as reminders of its glorious past, yet, if you were to ask the average person in Baltimore what they think about Druid Hill Park today, more often than not the response you’ll hear is “is it safe?”



Last weekend I took a walk around the Resevoir at Druid Hill Park and found it was a resource in Baltimore City that I had been under-utilizing. As I walked along I came across a father and daughter flying a kite, individuals rollerblading and riding bikes, and people resting on benches that surround the resevoir.

How did the park gain its current unsavory reputation? Most of it seems to come from a few too many headlines in the last twenty years of delinquent activities taking place in and around the park. If you grew up in Baltimore in the 1940's, chances are your family took you to this park for a wide variety of reasons including a notoriously great hill for sledding ... more

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