Friends of Gwynns falls leakin park

FOGFLP's first Fall Festival was a big success!   

(see our full photo gallery here)

About 150 people joining us on Sunday, November 10th, for a lovely day in the park with neighbors and friends. We enjoyed an afternoon of music, face painting, crafts, games, and community resources while celebrating the progress we've made toward ensuring GFLP's future as a state-city partnership park. We're looking forward to many more family-friendly activities in 2025!  

Months in the making, it features a beautiful, exquisitely detailed map on one side and a brochure loaded with fascinating park information on the other. FOGFLP is making this map available free as a gift from us to the community.

Pick up a copy from a kiosk in the park, at Second Sunday (or other FOGFLP events), or download and print it yourself from our Map page.

Read the full article, in PDF format, by Jacques Kelly that appeared in the Baltimore Sun on August 3, 2024.

Ridge Cemetery, a nearly 200-year-old graveyard has captured the attention of some park neighbors who have cleared away over-growth revealing some of the names of those buried there.  

See our YouTube video to learn more...

Read the full article, in PDF format, published on June 24, 2024 in the Chesapeake Bay Journal by Timothy B. Wheeler at this link.

Among Baltimore’s packed rowhouses and apartment buildings sits forested terrain marked by towering leafy trees, wildlife and rocky streams spilling foam. 

Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park is the most extensive greenspace in Baltimore City and the second-largest urban woodland park in the nation. But it is a neglected treasure.   Read the full Baltimore Fishbowl article here...

On Thursday, May 16th, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation that sets a course for the establishment of Baltimore City’s first state park – a potentially transformative move for West Baltimore and beyond.

Deserved or not, Leakin Park has a reputation.

Scores across the country know it as the site where Hae Min Lee was buried in a shallow grave, a case probed years later on the podcast “Serial.” Locals better know Leakin Park as the densely overgrown expanse in their backyards with a host of possibility but also insufficient staffing, illegal dumping and safety concerns.  Read the article here...

State parks are more than just beautiful places; they provide recreational, economic and cultural benefits to their host communities. Baltimore City is one of just two jurisdictions in Maryland without the advantages of a state park. But we can change this, elevating both the city and the region, thanks to a special opportunity under Maryland law.  Read the full article here.