Destinations · Maryland
Patapsco Valley State Park
MD · 39.2931, -76.7867
From Patapsco Valley State Park, Maryland, Byway's registries place 11 scenic byways within 30 miles.
Understand
Patapsco Valley is easily the largest park (save the narrow Rock Creek National Park) in the densely populated section of the country between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. As such, it is quite popular with day-trippers and campers alike seeking to escape the suburban sprawl for a while, and to explore its natural and historic sights.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Historic National Road - Maryland · 1 mi · national
- Star-Spangled Banner Byway · 8 mi
- Baltimore's Historic Charles Street · 9 mi · national
- Falls Road · 9 mi
- National Historic Seaport · 9 mi
- Horses and Hounds Scenic Byway · 13 mi
Lookouts
- Friction Wall Overlook · 2 mi
- Putney's Bridge · 4 mi
- Old quarry filled with trash · 5 mi
- Cliff overlooking Quarry Lake · 5 mi
Named places
- Union Dam Race Embankment · 0 mi
- Union Dam · 0 mi
- Chestnut Hill · 1 mi
- Ellicotts Upper Mills · 1 mi
- Mentzel Paper Mill · 1 mi
- Dogwood Wall · 2 mi
- Ellicott's Mills · 2 mi
- Ellicott City B&O Railroad Station Museum · 2 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Ellicott City · 2 mi
- Baltimore/West Baltimore · 4 mi
- Columbia · 5 mi
- Pikesville · 7 mi
- Hanover · 8 mi
- Owings Mills · 8 mi