Forest Park, Baltimore

Forest Park (and Howard Park) is a region of Northwest Baltimore, Maryland located west of Reisterstown Road, south of Northern Parkway, and east of the Baltimore City/County line. In Baltimore, the region is referred to by locals simply as "Forest Park" and includes the neighborhoods of Ashburton, Callaway-Garrison, Central Forest Park, Dolfield, Dorchester, East Arlington, Forest Park, Grove Park, Hanlon Longwood, Howard Park, Garwyn Oaks, Purnell, West Arlington, West Forest Park, and Windsor Hills.

It is an economically diverse area that was once the center of Baltimore's Jewish community. During the Vietnam War, however, the area experienced white flight and is now an almost exclusively African American region of Baltimore. The neighborhoods in Forest Park and Howard Park are varied as many have experienced urban decay and crime while many appear as suburban and upper-middle-class neighborhoods.

Parks and recreation

Forest Park is home to Hillsdale, Hanlon, and Powder Mill Parks in addition to the Forest Park Golf Course. It is also within proximity of the Baltimore Zoo and Druid Hill Park.

Known as Gwynn Oak

The area in Baltimore County near Forest Park is known as Gwynn Oak located directly west of the Baltimore city line.

Roads

Garrison Avenue/Garrison Boulevard

Garrison Avenue starts as a one-way street from Greenspring Avenue, changes to Garrison Boulevard after Wabash Avenue, then makes a slight left after passing Liberty Heights Avenue (known as MD-26) to Clifton Avenue.

Berwyn Avenue

Berwyn Avenue is a street from Liberty Heights Avenue to Garrison Boulevard, and a little street to the other side of Liberty Heights Avenue.

Forest Park Avenue

This street runs from Garrison Boulevard to Security Boulevard (crossing Baltimore County line) then splits off to Forest Park Avenue with a traffic light across from I-70, and ends at St. Agnes Lane.

External links

Northwest District Maps

Neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland

Northwest	Arlington Ashburton Cheswolde Dorchester Fallstaff Forest Park Glen Howard Park Heights Pimlico Reisterstown Station Television Hill

North	Abell Barclay Bellona-Gittings Better Waverly Cameron Charles Village Cedarcroft Chinquapin Park-Belvedere Cylburn Edgecomb Evergreen Govans Guilford Hampden Harwood Homeland Homewood Keswick Koreatown Lake Evesham Lake Walker Loyola-Notre Dame Little Korea Town Medfield Mount Washington Oakenshawe Pen Lucy Poplar Hill Radnor-Winston Remington Roland Park Sabina Mattefeldt Tuscany-Canterbury Village of Cross Keys Waverly Woodberry Wyman Park Wyndhurst

Northeast	Belair-Edison Cedonia Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello Ednor Gardens-Lakeside Frankford Gardenville Hamilton Hillen Lauraville Loch Raven Mayfield Mid-Govans Northwood Ramblewood Stonewood-Pentwood-Winston Wilson Park Woodbourne Heights

West	Bridgeview/Greenlawn Coppin Heights Edmondson Franklin Square Harlem Park Lexington Midtown-Edmondson Mondawmin Mosher Poppleton Rosemont Sandtown - Winchester Upton Walbrook Windsor Hills

Central	Barre Circle Bolton Hill Charles Center Chinatown Downtown Inner Harbor Madison Park Mount Vernon Otterbein Reservoir Hill Ridgely's Delight Seton Hill Station North Westside

East	Barclay Berea Broadway East Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello East Baltimore Midway Ellwood Park Four By Four Greenmount West Latrobe Homes Madison-Eastend McElderry Park Middle East Old Town Oliver Orangeville

Southwest	Beechfield Carrollton Ridge Dickeyville Franklintown Gwynn's Falls Hollins Market Irvington Morrell Park Pigtown Sowebo Ten Hills Union Square Violetville Wakefield Washington Village Yale Heights

South	Brooklyn Cherry Hill Curtis Bay Fairfield Federal Hill Harborview Lakeland Locust Point Mount Winans Pratt Monroe South Baltimore Wagner's Point Westport

Southeast	Bayview Brewer's Hill Butchers Hill Canton Fell's Point Graceland Park Greektown Harbor East Highlandtown Jonestown Joseph Lee Kresson Linwood Little Italy Patterson Park St Helena Upper Fells Point Washington Hill

Public housing	Allendale Armistead Gardens Bel Park Towers Claremont Douglass Homes Ellerslie Homes Flaghouse Homes Govans Manor Homes Heritage Crossing Johnston Square Lafayette Court Latrobe Homes Mason Homes Lakeview Towers McCulloh Homes O'Donnell Heights Perkins Homes Pleasent View Gardens Poe Homes Primrose Place Somerset Courts

Parks	Clifton Park Cylburn Arboretum Druid Hill Park Gwynns Falls Park Leakin Park Patterson Park Sherwood Gardens Wyman Park

Coordinates: 39°21′48″N 76°41′20″W / 39.363236°N 76.688862°W / 39.363236; -76.688862

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