Baltimore Pride 2009
http://www.baltimorepride.org/visitorinfo/festivalarea/index.shtmlFestival Area
The Festival
Festival Map
Sunday, June 21, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The Festival on Sunday is in Druid Hill Park. The Park is best reached from I-83 (Jones Falls Expressway). From either direction – north or south – take the 28th Street exit and follow the signs to the Maryland Zoo. For a map and directions to Druid Hill Park, click here.
There is parking at the Festival on the park grounds. Baltimore City parking attendants will collect parking fees. These fees DO NOT go to Baltimore Pride or the GLCCB. Click here to get a map of the Festival area.
Druid Hill Park in northwest Baltimore, Maryland, ranks with Central Park in New York, begun in 1859, and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia as the oldest landscaped public parks in the United States. Druid Hill Park is a 745-acre (3.01 km2) urban park.[2] The land was originally part of the Druid Hill estate of Nicholas Rogers, and was purchased by the city of Baltimore with the revenue derived from a one-cent park tax on the nickel horsecar fares.[3] Druid Hill Park was inaugurated by Baltimore Mayor Thomas Swann on October 19, 1860. Formerly "Auchentorlie", the estate of George Buchanan, one of the seven commissioners responsible for the establishment of Baltimore City, included 579 of the 745 acres (3.01 km2) that comprise Druid Hill Park today. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo by Lester Spence from Baltimore, USA