Greenway Envisioned by Olmsted Siblings Becomes Reality

 

The trail starts from Leakin Park in western Baltimore, following the Gwynns Falls stream along paved trail, dirt paths and city streets to the Inner Harbor and ending along the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River, forded by this biking youth, clearly off the trail.

A plan for a greenway linking Baltimore’s parks to its harbor dates back at least to a 1904 report prepared by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and his brother, John Charles, sons of the father of American landscape architecture.

Fourteen years and $14 million later, the 14-mile trail connecting eight city parks in 30 neighborhoods is complete.