Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Location
Howard County
Endpoints
Foundry Street to Savage Park
Mileage
1
Roughness Index
1
Surface
Gravel, asphalt, dirt
The Savage Mill Trail in Savage Park travels along the rolling Patuxent River through
the grounds of an old cotton mill. In the early 1800s, Savage was a major manufactur-
ing center, harnessing power produced by the falls on the Little and Middle Patuxent
rivers. Near the trailhead stands an 1822 textile mill, today renovated as a shopping
center where you can buy antiques or grab a picnic lunch to enjoy on the pleasant
1-mile trail.
The trail begins at an old Bollman truss bridge, an iron structure used exclusively
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Built in 1869, the bridge was moved to Savage
in 1887. Though the company built about 100 of these bridges before 1873, this is the
country's only remaining Bollman bridge of this design. The trail's designers left the
