Celebrate: Train Rides, a Jazz Legend, and a Real Win for the Park

Come spend a Sunday in Baltimore's biggest woodland. There's a miniature steam train, a jazz trumpet, guided hikes under a thousand acres of tree cover — and this month, some of the best news this park has had in a generation. Bring the family, bring a neighbor, and make a day of it.

All day, 11 to 3:

• Ride the free miniature steam train
• Take on Outward Bound's rock climbing wall
• Hang out with a Carrie Murray Center naturalist and meet an animal ambassador
• Grab a free bike rental and roll the trails
• Join a guided hike or nature walk
• Wander the labyrinth, the Magnolia Grove, and the Nature Art Trail

Tiny Chapel Concert Series + Special Guest

This month, our house band plays the historic Winans Chapel - and special guest Rahmlee Michael Davis — a jazz trumpeter who's recorded with Earth, Wind & Fire, Phil Collins, and The Jacksons — will perform some of his greatest hits out in the open air of Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park.

Come early, grab a seat or bring a lawn chair, your favorite picnic lunch, and listen to a trumpeter who's played some of the world's biggest stages.

A Win for the Park — and a Thank-You

At 11:30, we'll pause the music for a few minutes, because this year, neighbors did something remarkable.

Years of advocacy — testimony in Annapolis, residents showing up again and again, and partnership with Delegate Malcolm Ruff and the District 41 delegation, Maryland DNR, and Baltimore City Rec & Parks — secured the first real state investment to begin Baltimore's very first state park, in Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park.

What's secured so far:

• $280,000 — State Park Master Planning (FY27)
• $2 million — Capital funding (FY27)
• $2 million - via an application to the Green Space Equity Fund (FY 28)

That's the foundation. Our Executive Director, Pickett Slater Harrington will share what it means, what comes next for the city–state partnership, and — most importantly — how you help shape it.

Because the park got the start it needed. Seeing it through is up to all of us.

You helped win this park's future. Now help us see it through.

The state investment builds the park. It's donations that keep FOGFLP at the table — making sure the plan reflects the 18 neighborhoods around it, and keeping days like this one going. Any amount helps.