Tawes Garden — Attraction in Annapolis

Very cute little garden that was cleverly designed and appears perhaps a little neglected. If you take Taylor to Herbert M Sachs Dr, then you will find a little 8 spot parking lot right near the buildings (sign says MAX of 1-hour parking, not sure how they monitor that). On weekends and when buildings are closed, you just walk around the side of the building (there are signs) and find this cute little park designed to represent different areas of Maryland, with some great explanatory signs and accessible flat paths (which some kids were using to zoom around on their bicycles unfortunately). It is a nice pretty park in the middle of the city with some seating, but there were some fallen limbs and overgrown bushes and rubbish....so while very fun, could use a little T&C. Anyhow, a nice park for us to have,...

My only interest in this park is for bird watching. The flowers are beautiful and well maintained, but it's quite a small park in a busy government park, and there's many places to see flowers. You can actually do quite well here during migration, especially on weekends and holidays when parking is easy and there's no one else in the park. There was a very reliable Red Shouldered Hawk nest here for a while, but the tree had...

I just went earlier today - It was about 20 degrees (Fahrenheit, as it is the middle of December), and despite the wintery look it really was a gorgeous little nature walk. The gift shop is small, and there's not much on offer, but it seems to be a typically underfunded little touristy area - It'd be great to do lunch and then sit out on the benches and look at the ponds when the...