Helen Cho and her son, Timothy Cho, 2, play in the Patapsco River on a Thursday at the Patapsco Valley State Park Avalon Area. They live in Columbia and have visited the area frequently since July ...

Decades ago, several hundred hemlock trees stood in a section of Patapsco Valley State Park around Cascade Falls along the Patapsco River near Elkridge. Today they barely number 100. Similar ...

Situated between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, Patapsco Valley State Park offers more than 170 miles of trails, spread across 16,043 acres and eight developed recreation areas.

By 1919, it expanded to 1,000 acres and included 200 campsites and included several surrounding trails for hikers. It officially became Maryland’s first state park in the 1930s.

The Patapsco Valley State Park went from 1 million visitors in 2019 to 2.5 million in 2020. ... "This is the first event loop for NICA in Maryland state parks.

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — Not all hikers at Patapsco Valley State Park enter through the main visitor entrance, so the Maryland Park Service has a way to meet those visitors where they are.

A 16-year-old girl was airlifted to the hospital after falling ill while participating in a youth program at Patapsco Valley State Park Friday.

A man uses a rope to swing into the water at at Patapsco Valley State Park in in Marriottsville, Md., in June 2016. Maryland’s state parks have seen a surge in visitors amid coronavirus ...