--- title: "Woodlawn – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Woodlawn, United States: town 11 km from Baltimore. Nearby: Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park, Security Square Mall, Elmer V. McCollum House. Every way there from…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/woodlawn" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/woodlawn.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Town · United States · Maryland # Woodlawn What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Woodlawn 3 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. Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park is a park in Baltimore, Maryland, constituting a contiguous area of 1,216 acres. It was envisioned as a "stream valley park" to protect Baltimore's watersheds, including the Gwynns Falls, from overdevelopment and to preserve their natural habitats. 3.7 km · urban park and statistical area in Baltimore, Maryland, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynns_Falls/Leakin_Park) 2. Security Square Mall Security Square Mall is a mall in Woodlawn, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, in the United States. The mall features over 100 stores and restaurants, as well as a food court. 2.4 km · shopping mall in Maryland, U.S · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Square_Mall) 3. 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. 3.9 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 Woodlawn **Airports:** Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 17 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 59 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 76 km\ **Stations:** Rogers Avenue, 3.9 km · Reisterstown Plaza, 3.8 km\ - Washington → Woodlawn 22 km · quickest by road, 33 min · $2.5–3.5 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/washington-to-woodlawn) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Washington&to=Woodlawn) - Dulles → Woodlawn 39 km · quickest by road, 55 min · $4.5–6 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dulles-to-woodlawn) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dulles&to=Woodlawn) - Philadelphia → Woodlawn 151 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/philadelphia-to-woodlawn) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Philadelphia&to=Woodlawn) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Woodlawn) 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 Woodlawn 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 Woodlawn. 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 339 km 2. [Vinalhaven and the Fox Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vinalhaven) US 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 840 km 3. [Bacalar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacalar) MX 9 ways of moving, 41 sources 2,555 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 Woodlawn – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwoodlawn&title=Woodlawn&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwoodlawn), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Woodlawn Woodlawn is 11 km from [Baltimore](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/baltimore), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Dickeyville Historic District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dickeyville-historic-district) historic district coincident with the neighborhood of Dickeyville, Baltimore, Maryland 2.1 km - [West Hills](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-hills) neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States 3.5 km - [Beechfield](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beechfield) neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States 2.6 km - [Gwynn Oak](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gwynn-oak) human settlement in United States of America 3.2 km [The place page for Woodlawn](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/woodlawn) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United States](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-US) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/woodlawn, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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