We are the #1 Best City for Walking in Maryland!
March 5th, 2008 Categories: Silver Spring Neighborhoods
In the April issue of Prevention Magazine each of 50 states were rated for Walking and or Walkability.
Silver Spring, MD was rated#1 in Maryland and #17 of the Top 100 cities in the Nation!
(I sure hope we don’t get disqualified when they figure out Silver Spring is not a real city) SHHHHH!
Prevention Magazine’s Ratings for the state of Maryland:
No. 1 Silver Spring!!!
The experts cited good countdown signals for walkers that allow enough time to cross at busy intersections, our vibrant Downtown with Shopping, Dining and Entertainment as reasons for rating Silver Spring at the top. We have the most mass transit users anywhere in the state and a low number of cars per household helped Silver Spring rank #1 in Maryland
No. 2 Bethesda – We Finally Beat Bethesda for Something!!
No. 3 Gaithersburg
No. 4 Dundalk
No. 5 Baltimore
No. 6 Frederick
No. 7 Germantown
No. 8 Wheaton-Glenmont
No. 9 Columbia
No. 10 Ellicot City
Find out how your specific Silver Spring Neighborhood scores for Walkability Here.
This is a laugh. I like Silver Spring, but it isn’t a city. It’s a very expansive unincorporated part of the county, but even considering only downtown Silver Spring, Georgia Avenue, Colesville Road, East-West Highway, and the especially the railroad tracks are huge impediments to walkability.
Dundalk is on this ranking! LOL! And Germantown??!!! I would really like to see the study criteria – don;t places need SIDWALKS to be walkable?? I’m glad SS ranked high – but we still have a LONG way to go.
LOL. I wish you wouldn’t have sent me to that site. I ended up looking up my BMI and all of a sudden I am feeling fat!
Hey Linda,
Thanks for the Maryland rankings, always nice to know what’s going on across the river. On the Virginia side I was thrilled at the amount of documented ‘green space’ we have. It’s always interesting how they actually come up with these numbers – but I’ll take them!
Michael