WHAT: Waterfront Partnership’s First Annual Baltimore Floatilla For A Healthy Harbor
Mr. Trash Wheel will join 200 experienced paddlers as they launch their canoes, kayaks and standup paddle boards from the Canton Waterfront Park, paddle 2.5 miles and rally at the Inner Harbor where they will raise their paddles and voices for clean and healthy water during the Waterfront Partnership’s first annual paddling floatilla event—The Baltimore Floatilla for a Healthy. Participants will then paddle back to Canton Waterfront Park for an after-party featuring food, fun and live music by Baltimore’s own Tongue in Cheek.
Please note: this event is weather dependent.
WHEN: Saturday, June 11, 2016
8:00 a.m. - Paddlers will launch from Canton Waterfront Park
10:00 a.m. - Approximate arrival to the Inner Harbor (by the Maryland Science Center)
10:00-10:30 a.m. – “Rally” at the Inner Harbor
12:00-2:00 p.m. - After-party at Canton Waterfront Park
WHERE: Canton Waterfront Park, 3001 Boston Street, Baltimore, MD 21224
MEDIA Media will have access to the rooftop of the Maryland Science Center, the Inner
OPS: Harbor Promenade, and a designated media boat docked by the Maryland Science Center that can go out into the Harbor.
Interviews are available with Waterfront Partnership’s board chair, Mike Hankin; the Healthy Harbor Director, Adam Lindquist; and Will Baker of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation at the Inner Harbor Promenade. Interviews with participants are available before or after the paddle at Canton Waterfront Park.
MORE For additional information, including directions, parking and more, please visit
INFO: www.waterfrontpartnership.org.
The Healthy Harbor Initiative provides a roadmap for cleaning up Baltimore’s Harbor and the waterways leading to the Harbor. A clean Harbor and clean streams will provide opportunities for residents and area families to enjoy clean water in their neighborhoods. Greener and cleaner neighborhoods will make Baltimore City and Baltimore County more livable for all our citizens. For more information, visit www.healthyharbor.org.
Waterfront Partnership is the proud steward of Baltimore's crown jewel, its Inner Harbor and Waterfront. We're lean, nimble and effective; the only organization that wakes up every day, rolls its sleeves up and gets to work on new ways we can make Baltimore's Waterfront even more active, attractive and appealing. We're the hosts who greet visitors, the creators of programs and promotions and managers of our beautiful parks. We encourage investment in Baltimore's most celebrated asset so it can continue to grow, to serves as a place of pride and the place where Baltimoreans come together to recreate and to celebrate. For more information, visit www.waterfrontpartnership.org.
