A Baltimore weekend

Start with the places the marathon actually passes.

The route's local signatures

Meet the architecture and landscape along the course. Use these places to get to know the city before deciding how to spend your time on your feet.

Washington Monument (Mount Vernon Place)

Near mile 8.0

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 54 meters.

Bank of America Building (10 Light Street)

Near mile 8.6

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 155 meters.

Transamerica Tower (100 Light Street)

Near mile 8.7

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 161 meters.

414 Light Street

Near mile 9.0

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 127 meters.

Baltimore World Trade Center

Near mile 13.3

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 124 meters.

Legg Mason Tower (100 International Drive)

Near mile 13.9

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 110 meters.

Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower

Near mile 25.7

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 88 meters.

B&O Warehouse at Camden Yards

Near mile 25.9

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 30 meters.

A weekend rhythm that protects race day

Arrival. Base your first walk on the real start and finish geometry, then inspect the final approach in the route map.
Packet pickup. Go to Baltimore Convention Center, Hall A inside its published window; save the final hours offline.
The day before. Choose one course landmark, keep the outing short, and finish your feet-up time early.
Race day. Follow the transportation plan, not ordinary weekend traffic directions.
After the finish. Let the finish-area access plan decide the meal and meetup, especially on a point-to-point course.

Where the weekend should be based

Baltimore hands you two separate problems, and no hotel solves both perfectly. The marathon and 10K start on the west edge of downtown at S. Paca & Camden, next to the ballpark. Everything else in the weekend sits half a mile east on the Inner Harbor: the expo at the Convention Center on Pratt Street, the half and 5K start at Pratt & Light, the finish line, and the Celebration Village. Half a mile is nothing at 2 p.m. and a real decision at 6:45 a.m. in the dark. Pick your zone by which end you would rather walk from.

Compare the actual hotel geometry →

Course geometry provenance is stated beside the player; elevation profiles always use the same route loaded there. City geometry is OpenStreetMap, ODbL. Aerial imagery is from USGS and USDA; other images carry their own source credits. Weather figures use Open-Meteo reanalysis for October 13-21 across 2016-2025 at the start line. Schedule, prices and expo hours were checked in August 2026 and are the fields most likely to move: confirm them on thebaltimoremarathon.com before you book anything. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it fast.