Howard County Bird Club
![Header with Logos A Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Header-with-Logos.jpg?fit=1000%2C141&ssl=1)
Avalon/Orange Grove Photographs
Enter from US1 to South Street into the park past the historic Thomas Viaduct. Visit the Baltimore County section:
![avalon-entrance Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-entrance.jpg?fit=500%2C375&ssl=1)
![avalon-entrancesign Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-entrancesign.jpg?fit=500%2C375&ssl=1)
![avalon-thomasviaduct Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-thomasviaduct.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1)
![avalon-glenartneysign Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-glenartneysign.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1)
![avalon-visitorscentersign Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-visitorscentersign.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1)
Visitor’s Center, Lost Lake, site of Bloede Dam (removed in 2018-2019), and the Grist Mill Trail as far as the bridge at Ilchester Road.
![avalon-visitorscenter Scott Berglund](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-visitorscenter.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
![avalon-lostlake Scott Berglund](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-lostlake.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
![avalon-bloededam Scott Berglund](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-bloededam.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
![avalon-ilchesterbridge Scott Berglund](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-ilchesterbridge-1.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
But emphasis is on Howard County in the Avalon and Orange Grove Sections along River Road.
![avalon-playground Scott Berglund](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-playground-1.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
![avalon-meadow Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-meadow.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
![avalon-riverroad Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-riverroad.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
![avalon-ridgetrailsign Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-ridgetrailsign.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
At the end of the publicly-accessible road is the Swinging Bridge.
Also visit the Cascade Falls Trail.
![avalon-parkinglot Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-parkinglot.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
![avalon-swingingbridge Scott Berglund](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-swingingbridge.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)
![avalon-cascadefallstrailsign Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-cascadefallstrailsign-250x250.jpg)
![avalon-cascadefalls Jo Solem](https://i0.wp.com/howardbirds.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avalon-cascadefalls.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1)