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Running trails in Pikesville, MD

Pikesville has 1 trail in the directory — 1 loop that returns to the trailhead and 1 with a stated distance. They're ranked here by rating weighted by review volume, across 118 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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Milford Mill Gwynn Falls Trail

4.2 ★★★★☆ 118 reviews

Pikesville, MD

1 miLoopMixedDog-friendly

Little 1-mile loop trail for kids and pets, featuring a stream and muddy spots.

How to pick a trail in Pikesville

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? 1 trail here is a loop, so you finish back at the car with no backtracking — the easiest way to run a set distance without thinking about it. On an out-and-back you turn round at half your target distance, which makes any trail fit any run. The longest stated distance in Pikesville is Milford Mill Gwynn Falls Trail at 1 mi.
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 Pikesville. 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 Pikesville)
Loop trails (1 in Pikesville)
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