Baltimore Historic and Scenic Guided and Self-Guided Walks |
The Baltimore National Heritage Area offers a variety of guided and self guided walks.
For more information on these walks please go to the Visitor Center near Landing 2 or the Fell's Point Visitor Center near Landing 11 or on the web at www.starspangledtrails.org. |
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As our waterfront neighborhoods develop, we encourage our riders to occasionally get off the boat and take a walk to the next Water Taxi Landing. This is especially true on the Seafarer's Walk between Harbor East and Fell’s Point. Restaurants, shops, marinas and pubs are tucked away on side streets and the promenade. Walk between tall, new condominiums and narrow 18th and 19th Century townhouses. You can pass the last remnants of old, commercial warehouses. It's a fine opportunity to be in the midst of 200 years of a changing Baltimore landscape. Some of these little streets were once traveled by sailors, Captains, maritime merchants, soldiers and shipbuilders. Wagons trundled back and forth and streets were full of people, supplies and animals. Lowly rooming houses and grander homes nestled together. Waterfront docks were teeming with noise and smells. There were plenty of outlets for drink and revelry. Many who could afford to move, left the docks and moved uptown where the air was sweeter and and the people more refined. It was a rough and tumble world and not for the faint of heart. Thames Street is the oldest, continually working waterfront in the country. |