A Greener
Baltimore

Park Walk Baltimore Prototype brochure [pdf] is a unique, innovative strategic approach to generate Better Health, Better Fitness, Better Nutrition and a Better Environment for the residents, businesses, nonprofits and the philanthropic community. Park Walk Baltimore generates a new source of non-tax park revenue using the highly successful cause marketing business model that generated almost $100 Million to renovate the Statue of Liberty.

Baltimore City is proud to feature approximately 6, 000 acres of parkland and public space. Within our city borders, there are over 300,000 street trees and a large inventory of park trees. In one of the larger parks, you may find yourself in the middle of a beautiful country estate. Visitors can take a peaceful walk in the woods on the back roads of Druid Hill Park, sit quietly and watch birds by the lake at Patterson Park or play a relaxing round of golf in Clifton, Carroll and Forest parks. Our smaller community parks provide areas to meet and greet your neighbors.

There’s something for everyone - senior artists who enjoy painting quietly by a fountain, the young urban professionals who are interested in biking or hiking the trails, as well as the youth ball players who hit the courts daily.

About

About Our Program

Park Walk Middle Branch is the first phase of Park Walk Baltimore, a new, innovative, interactive project, providing a new source of funding for parks while promoting better health, better fitness, and a better environment. It is a public private partnership that will make people’s lives more vibrant and help the business community become stronger with a more productive workforce and lower health care costs. Park Walk Baltimore will be followed by Park Walk cities and states across the country. Baltimore will be the first of many cities and states across America that will receive much needed financial support in today's environment of declining budgets and cutbacks. Park Walk Baltimore will use GREEN POWER to improve the health and fitness of its residents and the quality of life for their environment.

Park Walk Baltimore is divided into 4 sections: Park Walk Shopping, For Your Health, For Your Fitness, and For A Greener Environment: that will empower people, communities, businesses, and nonprofits to be catalysts for change

Park Walk America develops healthy people, healthy communities, healthy businesses, and a healthy environment

Now is the time to start making healthy changes!

Health

For Your Health

For your health will include the Baltimore based health and medical service providers that recognize, support and prioritize the park system as an important component of a healthy, active quality of life (See Park Rx at http://www.parkrx.org)

Fitness

For your Fitness

The following stores and facilities are examples of places where you will receive top quality products and excellent service. This list is preliminary and does not contain all the fitness facilities that may join Park Walk Baltimore. Those listed after Earth Day, April 22, 2026 will provide financial support to Baltimore’s parks and recreation areas with each purchase and usage.

earth

For A Better
Environment

In an effort to incorporate the stewardship of parks and recreational area into the broader agenda of environmentalism, Park Walk America has chosen Sustainability as the focal point to support both initiatives.

The Baltimore Office of Sustainability has developed a comprehensive model whose goal is to meet the current environmental, social, and economic needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet these needs. The Baltimore model, outlined at www.baltimoresustainability.org, focuses on six areas: Cleanliness, Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, Greening, Transportation, and Education & Awareness. Park Walk America

Beginning with Park Walk Baltimore, Park Walk America will support the Baltimore Office of Sustainability model and use it to expand its Sustainability initiative to the other cities, counties, and states that become part of the Park Walk America Network.

Shop

Baltimore Shopping

The Park Walk Baltimore online shopping platform is under development & will be fully available Summer 2026.This unfortunate delay is being caused by major market fluctuations due to the expected economic downturn.
The primary cause of the implementation delay is the price fluctuations due to the volatility of the response to worldwide tariffs. Companies and organizations seeking Park Walk America membership before Summer 2026 will receive a 25% Charter Member discount

F.A.Q.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to who, what, why, when, and how are the basis to a better understanding of projects, proposals, programs, and businesses.

The answers for Park Walk America follow:

Who

Park Walk America (PWA) was developed by ABC Ventures, a Baltimore-based corporate development company specializing in building business bottom lines through implementation of strategic marketing programs that support national issues and concerns, i.e., cause marketing. A group of former senior executives and managers of Fortune 500 companies staff the company. Each Park Walk America site will be a public-private partnership with the local public park organization and other park related nonprofits being the recipients of Park Walk America grant funds.
What

PWA was designed as a multi-faceted approach to empower people, businesses, the nonprofit sector, and the public sector to work in an unprecedented coalition to:
1. Enhance the quality of life for people and their neighborhoods, cities, and states by leveraging the power of the Internet to maximize medical, fitness, wellness, and environmental (sustainability) education
2. Promote active participation in fitness and wellness programs to build a healthier workforce that will have higher productivity and morale as well as lower absenteeism and health benefit costs.
3. Engage national and local businesses in an ecommerce based marketing platform that will build their sales while allocation a portion of their revenues to provide a much needed non-tax revenue base for cities and states to better maintain, develop, and steward America’s parks and recreation areas.
4. Promote Sustainability of the individual, the neighborhood, the city, and the state as a central theme
Why

America is facing critical timing problems to address major issues in health care, fitness, environmental stewardship, and under funding of America’s parks and recreational areas.
When

Further delays in creating solutions make the problems worse. The time for action and a creative innovative solution is now. The first phase of Park Walk America, Park Walk Baltimore is slated to launch Summer 2026. Beginning in Summer 2026, more cities and states across the country can have Park Walk sites developed for their markets. The effort will continue until every city and state interested in joining the coalition has its own Park Walk site and funding capability.
How

Each Park Walk site will have a custom designed web page, linked to the Park Walk America home page, that will be an geographically specific information portal on health, fitness, sustainability, and shopping (see prototype brochure). Businesses listing on the web site will pay linkage and marketing fees that will be allocated to park organizations and public agencies in restricted usage accounts. The net funds, after business expenses, will be specifically used for park maintenance, programming, and development.

Get In Touch

Send a message

We'll get back to you right away

Or write us at

Park Walk America,
Post Office Box 19776,
Baltimore, MD 21225

A Greener Baltimore

For Your Health

For Your Fitness

For A Better Environment

Who

What

Why

When

How

Get In Touch

Or write us at

A Greener
Baltimore