Patapsco Valley State Park is a heavily used park on the edge of Baltimore. T had been there before, but not I, so we decided to visit it for Hike with PATC 2023 as our other state park.
The one really unusual thing is that is has a large network of unofficial, unmaintained trails that the park administration is fine with. Usually, parks try to close down most or all unofficial trails. But Patapsco says right on their website that, "We have over 200 miles of trails, with 70 of those miles identified as maintained trails."
In practice, this meant that signs and blazes were very inconsistent, so we did a lot of route-checking as we went along.
We set out to do a loop from one of the PATC hiking guides, but we got a late start to our day and did a truncated version. After parking at the Orange Grove area, we crossed the swinging bridge and did a loop on the other side of the Patapso River. It was a pretty hike, and it's definitely a park I'd like to go back to.
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