I will be in Baltimore this weekend for a seminar and I am planning to do a run of about 10+ miles on Saturday. I will be staying at the Tremont Plaza on St. Paul Street. I will not have a car, so I will be travelling by foot to any place that I go. Are there any areas that I definitely need to avoid. Looks like there might be some trails at Druid Hill Park, is that a good place to go?
i would not go that way if you’re not armed … it might make for interesting site seeing, but maybe not for your first trip into bodymore …
if you want 10 miles and you’re up for some urban running, from st paul street you can run down towards the inner harbor - if i’d suggest a run that heads down hill (with traffic) on st paul. right on pratt street, and left on light st. follow light street through federal hill (my neighborhood) until you hit fort. make a left on fort and run til you hit fort mchenry. if you get there while it’s open you can do the loop around the point (about 1 mi.) … head back on fort until you can make a right on lawrence st (across from a mcdonalds), that’ll take you down to key highway. left on key highway back to the inner harbor. follow that around, keeping the water on your right. if you do this far enough you’ll work your way into fells point. keep the water on your right you’ll eventualy hit aliceanna, which will take you to boston street. make a right on boston and run into canton. a left on o’donnell street (immediately after a grocery store), will take you to canton square. circle that and head back home. that should be in the 10-12 mi range, depending on choices you make along the way … i live at the far end of federal hill and make that run into canton when i’m looking for a longer run and it’s in the 8.5 to 9 mile range … this is probably more in the 12mile range but is made up of some longish out and backs, knitting together a few of my longer and shorter runs around the city … it will, however, show you 80% of the bars and restaurants in the city!
Nuts. I’m spectating/supporting Mrs. Schwingding on Sunday at the IronGirl race so I need to do my long workout on Saturday, or I’d switch running days and pick you up and take you to the best trail running spot in the city - Robert E. Lee Park. Nuts.
If you don’t follow the other advice given already you might look up the Balto Marathon to see the run course and run part of that. Or find the “Charm City Run” website and see if there are any marked runs in downtown.
Ditto on Druid Hill, unless you’re one of our dark skinned ST brothers (or train at 5 min miles) you might avoid it
BTW, the Tremont is pretty nice. Avoid the harbor tourist trap. Catch a taxi to Fells Point, wander around, stop in Bertha’s for some fine food and drink. Or little Italy - on Saturday evenings they usually show an Italian film outdoors, plenty of great restaurants to choose from.
I just had another idea for a long run - get out google maps and run from the harbor to Fort McHenry (Fort Avenue), run around the grounds, and head back. Nice run.
That said…as a former Baltimoron I use to run through the back half of druid hill park all the time when I was in college there. It has great hills and borders the Zoo so you can see some animals not native to Baltimore. We use to do a nice loop through the hills to Greenspring lane make a right, cross 41st then cold spring, make a right on spring garden dr,right on tamarind dr, left on coldspring, right on rolland ave back to JHU. You could run through the Johnny Hop or take Keswick back to the Park. Look it up on google maps to geta sense of where everything is. I believe the route we use to run was 7 or 8ish. Probably 10 from your hotel. If you run early I can’t see you having a problem unless it has really deteriorated since I left.
TomAnnapolis,
Thanks, that’s perfect. Now, I’ll have to print up a trip tik otherwise I’ll get lost sure as sh*t. One of my Air Force buddies calls me NASA (No Apparent Situational Awareness).
Looks like it’s going to be a warm one this weekend, Ugh!
What, no love for the rest of us who took the time to respond. PPffttt!
I was getting there…man…duty called…patients look at you funny when you tell them to hang on a couple of minutes while I finish here on the internet 
Actually, I was going to get back to you and see if you would want to do a Friday evening run. I’m in class all day on Friday and Saturday, so I have to run in the afternoon/evening either day. If you’re available let me know, otherwise I’m flying solo.
check out http://usatf.org/routes/ i’ve double-checked my run routes and the distances seem pretty accurate … it takes a little getting used to, but you can follow the streets and print from there …