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[[File:A family in Gwynns Falls-Leakin Park.png|thumb|A family walking through a meadow at Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park|275x275px]]
=== The Eagle Drive Entrance to the Crimea section ===
[[File:People meeting in the Magnolia Grove, Gwynns Falls - Leakin Park.jpg|thumb|People meeting in the blooming Magnolia Grove, Gwynns Falls / Leakin Park]]
Along Windsor Mill Road, the Eagle Drive Entrance to the park provides access to railroad-themed park amenities: the historic structures of railroad builder Thomas Winans, as well as such family activities as miniature train rides and an RR playground. Features from the Winans Crimea Estate era include the stone Orianda mansion and carriage house and the Carpenters Gothic Winans Chapel—all three on the City’s list of historic landmarks.<ref>Historic Landmarks #59: [https://chap.baltimorecity.gov/landmark-list Crimea House, Chapel, Stables] (1982)</ref> Visitor parking is located near the entrance.
Facilities in this section include the headquarters of the [https://www.outwardboundchesapeake.org/ Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School], with its outdoor activities programs
Afro-American (1893-1988); Baltimore, Md. [Baltimore, Md]17 Aug 1985: 9.</ref> with year-round programs providing young people opportunities “to meet live animals, explore the park, and develop a relationship with the natural world.” For active recreation, this section includes tennis courts, with plans for improved sports playfields, and access to woodland trails. There is also a grove of saucer magnolias ([[Magnolia_×_soulangeana|Magnolia × soulangeana]]) that volunteers have recently saved from encroaching invasive vines.▼
▲Afro-American (1893-1988); Baltimore, Md. [Baltimore, Md]17 Aug 1985: 9.</ref> with year-round programs providing young people opportunities “to meet live animals, explore the park, and develop a relationship with the natural world.” For active recreation, this section includes tennis courts, with plans for improved sports playfields, and access to woodland trails.
=== Gwynns Falls Trail, Leon Day Park, and Winans Meadow ===
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There are ten short hiking trails in the Winans Meadow area (accessible from Franklintown Road) and the Crimea area (accessible from Windsor Mill Road), which permit hikes of varying lengths, challenges and exposures. Longer hikes can be taken into different sections of the park via the Gwynns Falls Trail, the Dickeyville spur, the Windsor Hills Conservation Trail, and other trails that parallel Gwynns Falls. The Millrace section of the Gwynns Falls Trail (once a water power source for mills downstream and the only part of the route not paved) is a particularly scenic area with exceptional view of the Gwynns Falls. Parking for this section is available at the Windsor Mill Road Trailhead of the Gwynns Falls Trail.
Many hiking options are available to meet the desires of beginner and seasoned hikers and explorers. There is a historic estate to explore, relatively undisturbed forest areas, streams, a Sacred Labyrinth, a restored Magnolia Grove
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