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An aerial view of BWI Marshall Airport with downtown Baltimore in the background in September 2009. Planning for a new airport on 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) to serve the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area began in 1944, just prior to the end of World War II, when the Baltimore Aviation Commission announced its decision that the best location to build a new airport would be on a 2,100-acre ...
This is a list of airports in Maryland (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, the BWI Business District is to the north and west of the airport.The West Nursery District is bordered by I-195 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to the west, the Patapsco River to the north, Hammonds Ferry and Camp Meade Roads to the east, and Aviation Boulevard to the south.
The non-motorized companion to the Airport Loop is the BWI Trail, a 13.3-mile (21.4 km) [3] hiking and bicycling trail that completely encircles BWI Airport. Also constructed by MDSHA and designed for area commuters, the first 4.4-mile (7.1 km) section of the trail opened in July 1994 and the main loop was eventually completed in 1999.
It is the closest airport to the nation's capital, the 24th-busiest airport in the nation, the busiest airport in the Washington metropolitan area, and the second busiest in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area. The airport opened in 1941 and was originally named Washington National Airport. Part of the original terminal is ...
Airport shuttle bus: The station is indirectly connected to MTA's Baltimore Light Rail, for which there is a stop (BWI Marshall Airport) station at the airport terminal. MTA LocalLink 75 : Connects the station to Arundel Mills (to the south) and the Patapsco Baltimore Light Rail station (to the north), with stops at the airport terminal and the ...
View west from the east end of I-195 at BWI Airport. I-195 begins at the western edge of its interchange with I-95. The freeway continues west as MD 166, which has a partial interchange for UMBC Boulevard, which leads to the UMBC campus, before ending next to a park-and-ride facility at Rolling Road, on which MD 166 continues north toward Catonsville.
The airport covers 1,410 acres (570 ha) at an elevation of 749 feet (228 m). It has three runways: 17L/35R, which measures 9,000 by 150 feet (2,743 x 46 m) and is made from asphalt/concrete; 17R/35L, which measures 4,008 by 100 feet (1,222 x 30 m) and is also made from asphalt/concrete, and 13/31, which measures 2,277 by 60 feet (694 x 18 m) and is made from asphalt.