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# Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

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## Every way there

- Search from wherever you are; the planner compares train, bus, ferry, flight and road.

The field note

What is in and around Langston Hughes, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Langston Hughes has

- Y Scheduled flights Baltimore (BWI), 19 km
- F Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
- Y Ferries Fell's Point, 10 km, Baltimore City Department of Transportation; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Baltimore, 8 km.

39.344°, -76.680°

An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

How locals move

## Getting around Langston Hughes the local way

- 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. Last edited 2026-06.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes), CC BY-SA 4.0.


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