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Locust Point

Locust Point is a peninsular neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland.

Locust Point
Locust Point · Carol M. Highsmith
The place

Locust Point is a peninsular neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. Located in South Baltimore, the neighborhood is entirely surrounded by the Locust Point Industrial Area; the traditional boundaries are Lawrence street to the west and the Patapsco River to the north, south, and east. It once served as a center of Baltimore's Polish-American, Irish-American and Italian-American communities; in more recent years Locust Point has seen gradual gentrification with the rehabilitation of Tide Point and Silo Point. The neighborhood is also noted as being the home of Fort McHenry and the western end of its namesake tunnel that carries eight lanes of Interstate 95 under the river.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Locust Point

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.

  1. 01
    Oriole 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.

    2.9 km · baseball stadium in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Walters 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.

    3.5 km · art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, US · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Archdiocese 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.

    3.3 km · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fort 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.

    1.4 km · United States fort in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

    The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1893 following the construction of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hopkins became a model for modern medical education.

    3.2 km · academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called the Baltimore Basilica, is a Catholic cathedral in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first Catholic cathedral built in the United States after the nation's founding and was among the first major religious buildings constructed after the adoption of the United States Constitution.

    3.3 km · church in Maryland, United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    George Peabody Library

    The George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University, focuses on research into the 19th century. It was formerly the Library of the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute of music in the City of Baltimore, and it is located on the Peabody campus at West Mount Vernon Place north of downtown Baltimore, Maryland.

    3.6 km · Research library in Baltimore, Maryland, US · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Peabody Institute

    The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a private music and dance conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1857, it became affiliated with Johns Hopkins in 1977.

    3.5 km · conservatory and university-prep school in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    CFG Bank Arena

    CFG Bank Arena is a multipurpose arena in Baltimore, Maryland. This venue is located about one block away from the Baltimore Convention Center on the corner of Baltimore Street and Hopkins Place in downtown Baltimore.

    3 km · arena located in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    100 Light Street

    100 Light Street is a 40-story, 528 ft skyscraper completed in 1973 in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. It occupies the city block bounded by South Charles, East Lombard, Light and East Pratt Streets.

    2.6 km · skyscraper in Baltimore, Maryland, United States · Wikipedia

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 Locust Point

Airports
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 12 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 60 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 83 km
Stations
Port of Baltimore, 900 m · Camden Station, 2.7 km · Lexington Market, 3.5 km · Shot Tower, 2.5 km · Charles Center, 2.9 km
  • Washington → Locust Point
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · $5–7
  • Dulles → Locust Point
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h · $8–11
  • Philadelphia → Locust Point
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · $13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Locust Point

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 Locust Point. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEd Kane's Water Taxi, +1 410 563-3901, stops at the Broadway Pier, connecting to the Inner Harbor, as well as Fort McHenry in South Baltimore and Canton to the east.

From Wikivoyage: Baltimore/Fells Point, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    331 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    835 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,556 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,585 km
  5. 05
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,589 km

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Around it

Next door to Locust Point

Locust Point is 3 km from Baltimore, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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