Cromwell Valley Park
Cromwell Valley Park is a quite large park just a little North East of Towson. It spans all the way from Cromwell Bridge Road to Loch Raven Reservoir. The landscape of the park is constantly hilly, never really reaching a constant flat point. There is one road that goes through the park, with both entry points at different locations of Cromwell Bridge Road. The road that enters from Cromwell Bridge closest to the hiking trails, is lined with large trees on both side for visitors to drive between once they enter. Once out of the car they can make their way to a walking path that leads to a large valley to explore. There is a stream along the right side of this walking path that visitors can go down to view, this stream feeds into the end of
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Step by step visitors will be seeing manmade structures vanish from their sights, leaving the blacktop road behind and eventually leaving the rock path behind as well. When walking down to the stream, visitors will see two sides, the side that has been changed by man—the right side—and the side that is untouched by society—the left side. When visitors walk past the large stone structure, overgrown with grass and worn, they are able to see what once was, and that nature has retaken what society once took from it. Once they reach the fork in the path, visitors can choose to go right and keep the stream in their line of sight, or go left and move onto the valley. If they choose to stay on the path with the stream, visitors will see the right side of the stream, the manmade side. This path allows visitors to not completely rid themselves of the outside world, making sure they can still be close to manmade structures. If visitors choose to go into the valley, they will find themselves surrounded by nothing but trees and a large grassy hill in their line of sight. On this path they will find themselves fully immersed in nature with no disturbance of man. Even the path is just cut down grass, no pavement and no rocks are placed down. Cromwell Valley Park allows it’s visitors to slowly delve deeper into nature, venturing away from manmade structures and entering a place that is peaceful and
Step by step visitors will be seeing manmade structures vanish from their sights, leaving the blacktop road behind and eventually leaving the rock path behind as well. When walking down to the stream, visitors will see two sides, the side that has been changed by man—the right side—and the side that is untouched by society—the left side. When visitors walk past the large stone structure, overgrown with grass and worn, they are able to see what once was, and that nature has retaken what society once took from it. Once they reach the fork in the path, visitors can choose to go right and keep the stream in their line of sight, or go left and move onto the valley. If they choose to stay on the path with the stream, visitors will see the right side of the stream, the manmade side. This path allows visitors to not completely rid themselves of the outside world, making sure they can still be close to manmade structures. If visitors choose to go into the valley, they will find themselves surrounded by nothing but trees and a large grassy hill in their line of sight. On this path they will find themselves fully immersed in nature with no disturbance of man. Even the path is just cut down grass, no pavement and no rocks are placed down. Cromwell Valley Park allows it’s visitors to slowly delve deeper into nature, venturing away from manmade structures and entering a place that is peaceful and