--- title: "Langston Hughes – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Langston Hughes, United States: James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/langston-hughes" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/langston-hughes.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- American writer and social activist (1901–1967) · United States · Maryland # Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. The place James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Langston Hughes 7 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. 1. The Maryland Zoo The Maryland Zoo—also known as The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and formerly as The Baltimore City Zoo or the Baltimore Zoo—is a 135-acre park located in historic Druid Hill Park in the northwestern area of the City of Baltimore, Maryland, with the postal address of 1876 Mansion House Drive. Druid Hill was opened in 1876 as the first major park purchase by the City under Mayor Thomas Swann, and was later designed by famed nationally-known landscaper Frederick Law Olmsted. 3.5 km · zoo in the United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maryland_Zoo_in_Baltimore) 2. Druid Hill Park Druid Hill Park is a 745-acre urban park in northwest Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Its boundaries are marked by Druid Park Drive, Swann Drive and Reisterstown Road, and the Jones Falls Expressway / Interstate 83. 3.8 km · public urban park in Baltimore, Maryland, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid_Hill_Park) 3. Cylburn Arboretum Cylburn Arboretum is a city park with an arboretum and gardens, located at 4915 Greenspring Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. It is open daily – excluding Mondays – without charge. 2.6 km · formerly the Cylburn Wildflower Preserve and Garden Center from 1954 until 1982 · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylburn_Arboretum) 4. Mount Washington Arboretum The Mt. Washington Arboretum is a 1-acre park with various trees, shrubs, and other plants in the Mt. 3.4 km · park in Baltimore, United States of America · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_Arboretum) 5. Poole and Hunt Company Buildings Poole and Hunt Company Buildings refers to a complex of buildings that once housed an ironworks— consisting of a foundry, machine shop, blacksmith shop, erecting shop, and other structures, which were located in the Woodberry section of northwest Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The buildings, made chiefly of brick and fieldstone, occupied portions of a 20-acre site. 3.3 km · building in Maryland, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole_and_Hunt_Company_Buildings) 6. Congregation Tiferes Yisroel Congregation Tiferes Yisroel – Beis Dovid, also known as Rabbi Goldberger's Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 6201 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. The congregation rabbi is Rabbi Menachem Goldberger. 2 km · Orthodox synagogue in Baltimore, Maryland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_Tiferes_Yisroel) 7. Elmer V. McCollum House The Elmer McCollum House is a historic house at 2301 Monticello Road in Baltimore, Maryland. Built about 1920, it is significant for its association with Johns Hopkins University researcher Elmer McCollum, who lived in the house from 1929 to 1939. 3.4 km · historic house in Baltimore, Maryland, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_V._McCollum_House) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Langston Hughes **Airports:** Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 19 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 63 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 80 km\ **Stations:** Milford Mill, 3.9 km · Mondawmin, 3.7 km · Reisterstown Plaza, 2.3 km · Rogers Avenue, 1 km · West Cold Spring, 1.1 km\ - Washington → Langston Hughes 59 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · $5–7 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/washington-to-langston-hughes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Washington&to=Langston+Hughes) - Dulles → Langston Hughes 78 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · $8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dulles-to-langston-hughes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dulles&to=Langston+Hughes) - Philadelphia → Langston Hughes 146 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · $13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/philadelphia-to-langston-hughes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Philadelphia&to=Langston+Hughes) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Langston%20Hughes) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Langston Hughes 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 Langston Hughes. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around One of the most popular (and unique!) modes of transportation in Baltimore is the water taxi system +1 410 563-3901. - Go next Naval 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. From [Wikivoyage: Baltimore](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Baltimore), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 334 km 2. [Vinalhaven and the Fox Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vinalhaven) US 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 835 km 3. [Bacalar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacalar) MX 9 ways of moving, 41 sources 2,559 km 4. [Vieques](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vieques) PR 8 ways of moving, 12 sources 2,596 km 5. [Tortola and the British Virgin Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tortola) VG 11 ways of moving, 15 sources 2,600 km If you know how people move in Langston Hughes – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clangston-hughes&title=Langston+Hughes&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flangston-hughes), and the note gets an entry. 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