Around Baltimore
What is actually within walking distance, what is worth the trip across town, and where to go when you need to get some work done. Written from living here, not from a guidebook.
Four neighbourhoods sit around the Homewood campus, and they are genuinely different from one another. Walking times are from campus.
Charles Village
5–10 min walkHistoric and student-centric — rowhouses, a real community, and the Baltimore Museum of Art on the edge of it.
NearbyBird in Hand, Niwana, bookshops, shuttle stops
Remington
15–20 min walkTrendier, a mix of young professionals and students, and the best eating per square block anywhere near campus.
NearbyR. House food hall, The Dizz, Papermoon Diner, parks
Station North
10–15 min walkThe arts district. Galleries, studios and the closest thing to a proper night out that you can still walk home from.
NearbyStation North Arts Cafe, The Crown
Hampden
20–25 min walkQuirky and colourful, with its own festivals and the 34th Street Christmas lights that are worth seeing once.
NearbyThe Avenue, Cafe Hon, Golden West Cafe
Most of this is free or close to it.
Baltimore Museum of Art
Free, always. Over 95,000 works, ten minutes from Charles Village.
The Inner Harbor
National Aquarium, the Science Center, Harborplace and Camden Yards.
Fells Point
Historic waterfront — pubs, live music, cobbles.
Mount Vernon
Walters Art Museum, the Symphony, and the original Washington Monument.
Artscape & the festivals
Artscape, the Book Festival and Comic-Con all run through the year.
Study spots
Brody Learning Commons, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Bird in Hand, Zeke’s Coffee.
We are building the list.
Cafes, barbers, gyms, bakeries, movers — places near the houses that we can point students at, some of them with a CAMP-US discount. It is free to be listed. We would rather recommend a dozen places we actually rate than sell space to fifty we do not.
List your businessLooking for a room around here?
Fourteen furnished houses, all within a few blocks of each other and of everything on this page.
See the housesCAMP-US is an independent student housing provider. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Johns Hopkins University or any other university. Opening hours and programmes change — check with the venue before making the trip.