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Running trails in Lanham, MD

Lanham has 1 trail in the directory — 1 with a stated distance. They're ranked here by rating weighted by review volume, across 51 Google reviews. Filter by surface, loop, distance, shade or lighting to get to the run you're actually planning — no made-up difficulty score, just the facts you'd check before driving out.

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Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Trail

4.4 ★★★★☆ 51 reviews

Lanham, MD

7.5 miMixedScenicDog-friendly

Hiking and biking are available at this clean, well-maintained area with smooth paved trails.

How to pick a trail in Lanham

Match the surface to your legs. Most of what's here is mixed (1 of 1). Asphalt and concrete are fast, predictable and runnable year-round but the least forgiving; crushed limestone and dirt take the sting out of high mileage; boardwalk is flat and scenic but slick in the wet. If your shins or knees are complaining, the fix that actually works is varying the surface you run on rather than chasing one "best" one. More mixed trails →
Loop or out-and-back? A loop finishes back at the car with no backtracking; on an out-and-back you simply turn round at half your distance. The longest stated distance in Lanham is Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Trail at 7.5 mi. 1 trail is long enough for a 5-mile-plus run without repeating yourself.
Check the hours before a 6am run. Plenty of trails sit inside parks that gate at dusk and don't unlock until well after sunrise, so a trail that's perfect at lunchtime can be locked at 6am.
Long run? Check water and restrooms first. 1 has trailhead parking in Lanham. Anything over an hour and those stop being nice-to-haves — and in summer, shade counts double.
The small things that decide it. 1 that runners describe as quiet and 1 dog-friendly. Busy or quiet isn't a good-or-bad thing here: a busy path is the safer choice for a solo run at dawn, a quiet one is better for intervals.

More on all of this in the trail-running guides.

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Mixed trails (1 in Lanham)
Long-run trails (5+ mi) (1 in Lanham)
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Quiet, uncrowded trails (1 in Lanham)
Dog-friendly (1 in Lanham)

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