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Blandair Regional Park West Playground   Blandair Park is one of the county’s most popular sporting venues. The park will be 300 acres when the last phase is completed. Three lit synthetic turf multipurpose fields, press boxes, and bleachers, as well as a playground, shade structure, and parking lot, are now available. The park is located one-third of a mile north of the intersection of Old Montgomery Road and Oakland Mills Road on Oakland Mills Road..   History Blandair…

Wilde Lake Park   Wilde Lake is a man-made drainage reservoir in Columbia, Maryland, that was built in 1966 and is named after the neighboring “village” of residences about north and west of Columbia Town Center. On June 21, 1967, James W. Rouse and Frazar B. Wilde formally opened the village, which was the first phase of Columbia’s “New Town” to be created in the late 1960s. Frazar B. Wilde, a former chairman of the board of Connecticut General…

African Art Museum of Maryland (AAMM)   The National Museum of African Art is a museum of African art run by the Smithsonian Institution and located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. 9,000 items of traditional and modern African art from Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 pictures, and 50,000 library books are among the museum’s holdings. It was the first museum in the United States dedicated to African art, and it still has the greatest collection. The museum…

Clark’s Elioak Farm   Clark’s Elioak Property is a historic 540-acre farm located along Maryland Route 108 in Howard County, Maryland. All of the land is protected by county or state farmland protection schemes, which prevents it from being used for non-farm development. Since 1927, the Clark’s have held the Elioak farm, a family with a seven-generation farming legacy in Maryland. Elioak is the name of a type of silty clay loam found on the slopes and peaks of…

Robinson Nature Center The James and Anne Robinson Nature Center is an 18-acre park next to the Middle Patuxent Environmental Area that offers nature education. This building is environmentally friendly, with geothermal heating/cooling, porous paving, solar panels, water saving systems, and other elements that have earned it the LEED Certified Platinum award. The Center offers over 450 activities each year, including field trips, public programmes, birthday parties, home schooling, and scouting. For decades, James and Anne Robinson looked after…

Lake Elkhorn Park Lake Elkhorn is a 37-acre (150,000-m2) reservoir in Columbia, Maryland’s Owen Brown neighbourhood. It is the third and largest lake in Columbia. A tiny dam, a park with a picnic pavilion, and a two-mile (3-kilometer) walking path around the lake are the primary attractions. The route, which is bordered by a park and townhouses, was completed in 1982. The Elkhorn branch of the Little Patuxent River is named for the lake, which was established in 1974.…

Centennial Park Centennial Park is a public park in Ellicott City, Maryland, managed by the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks. It is a 337-acre park that surrounds Centennial Lake. A 2.4-mile asphalt trail loop loops around the lake. During certain months of the year, boat rentals are available, as well as a public boat ramp. Hunting, guns, swimming, sailboarding, wind surfing, stand up paddle-boarding, and inner tubing are all illegal in the lake. Except in picnic pavilions,…