| Fort Smallwood Park | |
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 Battery Hartshorne, Fort Smallwood Park, December 2009 | |
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| Location | Anne Arundel County, Maryland, U.S. |
| Nearest city | Pasadena, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39°9′51.75″N 76°28′36.72″W / 39.1643750°N 76.4768667°W |
| Established | 1928 |
| Governing body | Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
Fort Smallwood Park is a county park in northeastern Anne Arundel County, near Riviera Beach and Pasadena, Maryland, United States. It is located on the outer Patapsco River as it meets the Chesapeake Bay, on a peninsula known as Rock Point.
On April 1, 2006 it became a regional park in the Anne Arundel County Park System, after being transferred from the Department of Recreation and Parks of Baltimore City after extensive decades-long negotiations. On September 19, 2009 County Executive John R. Leopold officially dedicated the 380-foot (120 m) fishing pier at Fort Smallwood Park "Bill Burton Fishing Pier", named for the long-time Baltimore Sun outdoorsman/reporter and columnist. The previous pier was destroyed in 2003 by Hurricane Isabel. It provides a view of the Sparrows Point plant of Mittal Steel Company (formerly owned by Bethlehem Steel Corporation), one of the largest steel manufacturing complexes in the world.[1]
Fort Smallwood Road (Maryland Route 173) leads from Patapsco Avenue and Pennington Avenue in Brooklyn-Curtis Bay in southern Baltimore City across Curtis Creek, past the U.S. Coast Guard Yard through the Arundel Cove-Hawkins Point area to Riviera Beach and Pasadena coastal communities across Stony Creek to the old fort and park.
A cluster of rock outcroppings known as White Rocks is located in the water northwest of the park.[2]
- ^ "Fort Smallwood Park website". Archived from the original on 2014-03-04. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ^ Sparrows Point, MD 7.5' quadrangle, USGS (2019)