Baltimore County, MD NextUp: Baltimore County, 3 Aug 2016

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From YouTube: Playtime at 160 parks

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Get ready for an overview of more than 6,700 acres of parks in Baltimore County. Next Up joins Parks and Recreation Director Barry Williams at Rocky Point beach for a tour on how to have fun in an amazing park system.

Find your park:
www.baltimorecountymd.gov/parks

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Next up Baltimore County: we are out here in Rocky Point Park, with my good friend the director of rec and Parks Barry Williams Barry.

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Hey will good seeing you good.

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See you we got a beautiful day out.

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Here great day,.

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I'm, taking a class over at the sailing center right next door to learn how to sail this fits into a larger part of sort of our outdoor playground. Yes, it.

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Is large we are on what 610 square miles and in Baltimore County and we have 212 parks. That's incredible!.

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Just you know how to dress.

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In our county yeah now summer, pocket parks yeah, but many of them are fairly good-sized. This one is the fairly good-sized. Our largest is our oregon ridge, which is 1100 acres and that's a big part. That's great for.

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Actually, a fourth of July's to inspect.

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Fourth of July's, but we have other kind of festivals. We even have the wine festival bear which is kind of a hot August blues, all those kind of activities. You see some really full nature related kinds of things at marsh: appointments in bald eagles, which is always wonderful to see from there. You can do some canoeing, you can learn a lot about the the natural habitats of the plants have been your.

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Marshy point Center actually helped with some of the oyster research. That's what's going on outside the. Basically, it ties into our education system, guys into our workforce system with internships. It's all connected. It is great, it is all connected. They.

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Come in from Philadelphia, you know where they come in for other states in Delaware and I'm always kind of interested in. Why they do then- and one of it is because the bucolic nature of our parts, but also because our staff are very friendly.

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That's it for next up Baltimore County here from Rocky Point, thanks again, Barry sure thing will, thanks for coming out, come on out to the parks, see you next time.