Baltimore
Baltimore, also known as Baltimore City, is the most populous city in the U.S.
Baltimore, also known as Baltimore City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the 30th-most populous U.S. city with a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 569,997 in 2025, while the Baltimore metropolitan area at 2.86 million residents is the 22nd-largest metropolitan area in the nation. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a population of 9.97 million in 2020. Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Though not located under the jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the Central Maryland region together with the surrounding county that shares its name.
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Worth seeing in and around Baltimore
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University, often abbreviated as Hopkins, is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Incorporated in 1867 and opened in 1876 based on the European research institution model, Johns Hopkins is considered to be the first research university in the U.S. The university was named for its first benefactor, the American businessman and Quaker philanthropist Johns Hopkins.
4.4 km · private university in Baltimore, Maryland, USA · Wikipedia - 02University of Baltimore
The University of Baltimore is a public university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is part of the University System of Maryland.
1.8 km · namesake university of Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia - 03Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Oriole Park at Camden Yards, commonly known as Camden Yards, is a ballpark in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is the home of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles, and the first of the "retro" major league ballparks constructed during the 1990s and early 2000s.
800 m · baseball stadium in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia - 04Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters.
800 m · art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, US · Wikipedia - 05Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art is an art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1914, the BMA's collection of 95,000 objects encompasses more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored by the Cone Collection of modern art, as well as one of the nation's finest holdings of prints, drawings, and photographs.
4.1 km · art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA · Wikipedia - 06Space Telescope Science Institute
The Space Telescope Science Institute is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope, science operations and mission operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope, and science operations center for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. STScI was established in 1981 as a community-based science center that is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.
4.9 km · research institute in Baltimore, Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 07Archdiocese of Baltimore
The Archdiocese of Baltimore is the archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in northern and western Maryland in the United States. It is the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province of Baltimore.
500 m · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 08Fort McHenry
Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British Royal Navy from the Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814.
4.2 km · United States fort in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia - 09Morgan State University
Morgan State University is a public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is the third largest among all Historically Black Colleges or Universities.
6.6 km · university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 10University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County is a public research university in Catonsville, Maryland, United States. It had a fall 2025 enrollment of 13,530 students.
9.1 km · public university in Maryland · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The Inner Harbor is the center of the city not only in the geographic but also in the tourist sense: it's a baffling, boisterous scene with plenty of eating and shopping, and often also live music by jazz groups, crooners, and the like. You'll hear Baltimoreans themselves scorn the Inner Harbor as a hypercommercialized tourist trap that's devoid of true local culture.
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Things to do
If there's one thing Baltimoreans love, it's sports — their tenacious loyalty to their local teams is remarkable even in the high-intensity world of American sports fanhood. That's especially true when it comes to Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles and the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, Charm City's representatives in the big four leagues of U.S. pro sports.
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Where to eat
A wide variety of dining options can be found in Baltimore, but no visit to Maryland is complete without a sampling of the local favorite: steamed crabs! During the summer harvest season (May to September), picking crabs or indulging in a crab feast is a popular way to spend the afternoon with family and friends. However, offseason, crab may be imported from as far away as Texas.
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Getting to Baltimore
- Airports
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 13 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 61 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 82 km
- Stations
- Port of Baltimore, 3.1 km · Camden Station, 800 m · Mondawmin, 4.5 km · Penn-North, 3.3 km · Charles Center, 0 m
- Washington → Baltimore57 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · $5–7
- Dulles → Baltimore81 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · $8–11
- Philadelphia → Baltimore144 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · $13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Baltimore
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Baltimore. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundOne of the most popular (and unique!) modes of transportation in Baltimore is the water taxi system +1 410 563-3901.
- Go nextNaval Academy can be done as a day trip from Baltimore via public trans Ellicott City — a wealthy Baltimore suburb with a charming old-fashioned main street Philadelphia — the birthplace of American independence and the nation's sixth largest city Washington, D.C.
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Next door to Baltimore
Baltimore is 57 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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