Quiet Waters Park (Maryland)

Quiet Waters Park

Location within Maryland

Location Annapolis, Maryland
Coordinates 38°56′16″N 76°30′16″W / 38.9378908°N 76.5044043°W / 38.9378908; -76.5044043Coordinates: 38°56′16″N 76°30′16″W / 38.9378908°N 76.5044043°W / 38.9378908; -76.5044043
Area 340 acres (140 ha)

Quiet Waters Park is a park located in eastern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA. The park contains 340 acres (1.4 km2) and is operated by the Anne Arundel Recreation and Parks. It is open year-round. Organizations using the park include The Friends of Quiet Waters Park.[1] As of 2010, it attracts 700,000 visitors a year.[2]

History

The park open on Labor Day, 1990 after a protracted political fight. The then County Executive, O. James Lighthizer, later said that getting the park open was "the toughest political fight in my 16 years of politics," but that it was worth it because after it opened "everybody in the community, no exceptions, loved it.".[3]

The land where the park now sits had originally been planned to be the spot of 250 luxury homes. Developers had purchased the land in early 1986 with this goal in mind, but when neighboring communities found out, the city of Annapolis and Lighthizer intervened, and the land ended up being purchased by the county. Some in the community felt the land should be left untouched, but a plan for an 8 million dollar park, modeled after Druid Hill Park in Baltimore and Central Park in New York City, was put in motion. In the end it wound up costing 12 million to create the park.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Friends of Quiet Waters Park".
  2. 1 2 "Once the site of controversy, Quiet Waters Park celebrates 20 years of sanctuary". Baltimore Sun.
  3. ↑ Gazette, Capital. "Our say: On parks, Schuh plays the Quiet Waters card". Baltimore Sun.


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