Tour Highlights

• Annapolis' oldest (and recently renovated) public housing community Bloomsbury Square and Obery Court/College Creek Terrace;
• The historic African-American Clay Street Community and murals;

• The volunteer-run Chesapeake Ecology Center @ Adams Academy, featuring several Bayscapes gardens, a Rainscaping Program, the Blacks of the Chesapeake Program,and a unique ecology center at a county school facility on College Creek in the midst of a historic African-American community;

• A unique partnership between the Naval Academy Athletic Association, Baltimore Gas Electric, the Maryland State Highway Administration, the Weems Creek Conservancy, and the City of Annapolis, showcasing a 1.3-mile bike/ped trail, the removal of impervious surfaces and creation of ballfields, dog litter stations, rain gardens, and extensive reforestation at the Naval Academy Stadium;

• A cooperative tree planting demonstration project between the City of Annapolis and Baltimore Gas Electric along a power line right-of-way that has been converted into the Poplar Trail;

• A spectacular sensory Bayscapes garden at a county-run facility for the developmentally disabled;

• Public & private rain gardens galore, like at Amos Garrett Park;

• A labyrinth at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts

 

• Street-end parks along local creeks, sailing & history come together at every turn