Patuxent River Park

Patuxent River Park is a nature reserve in Prince George’s County, Capital Region, Maryland. Patuxent River Park is situated nearby to the locality Jericho Park, as well as near the hamlet Patuxent Riding.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bowie State station and Bowie Railroad Buildings.

Bowie State station

Railway station

Photo: Woogers, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bowie State station is a regional rail station on the Northeast Corridor, located adjacent to the campus of Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland. It is served by MARC Penn Line commuter rail trains.

Bowie Railroad Buildings

Museum

Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.

The Bowie Railroad Buildings comprise three small frame structures at the former Bowie train station, located at the junction of what is now the Northeast Corridor and the Pope's Creek Subdivision in the town center of Bowie, Maryland.

Bowie Race Track

Bowie Race Track was an American horse racing track located just outside the city limits of Bowie, Maryland. It operated from 1914 through 1985. The facility is now a training center for Thoroughbred racehorses.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bowie and Piney Orchard.

Bowie

Photo: J1729, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bowie is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,329 persons. Bowie, Maryland has grown from a small railroad town to the largest municipality in Prince George's County.

Piney Orchard

Suburb

Piney Orchard is an unincorporated community within the Washington DC suburb of Odenton, Maryland, United States. Piney Orchard began as a Planned Unit Development, and was a project of the Constellation Real Estate Group, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Constellation Energy Group, which itself, is now owned by Exelon.

Patuxent River Park

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Prince George’s County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.031° or 39° 1′ 52″ north

Longitude

-76.759° or 76° 45′ 33″ west

Operator

M-NCPPC

Open location code

87F526JR+C9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 794625809

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sundew Bog and Bowie State Solar.

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