Other Projects

Kati’s Touch

Located behind what is called “Arnold Station,” once home to a post office and cannery along the B&A rail line, is “Kati’s Touch.” Part of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s “Team in Training,” Kati Fisher, too ill to participate in sponsored runs to raise money for cancer research, would give the “high five” to passing runners, spiriting them on. After her death, friends and team mates worked with The Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails and the county to establish a “place of solace and remembrance for those touched by cancer.” Kati’s personal “high five” was memorialized in bronze and the little park dedicated in 2008.

Angel’s Garden

In memory of a much loved child, a couple worked with The Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails and the county to establish a special respite along Strawberry Way Lane in Odenton, complete with drinking fountain, plantings and bench.

Kevin Dooley Memorial

Snuggled alongside the B&A Trail between Arnold and Severna Park is a memorial dedicated in 2006 to a popular Anne Arundel County employee of the Department of Planning and Zoning. Upon his untimely death, friends and co-workers raised funds and worked with The Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails to honor his memory with a bench and plantings.

Parker Rest Memorial

Located on the Broadneck Pennisula Trail, near College Parkway and  Peninsula Farm Road, and less than one mile from the B&A Trail at the end of Jones Station Road, is a rest stop that includes two sitting benches, a  picnic table, a bicycle rack, and a multipurpose water fountain for people and  pets.

The Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks and The  Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails dedicated the area in October 2021 as the Jean and Edgar Parker Memorial Rest Area in memory of Jean  Parker, an avid volunteer who passed away from complications related to  Alzheimer’s disease in 2007, and to Ed Parker for his many years of  volunteer service and generous monetary contributions toward the facility.

Ed Parker, a graduate of the Naval Academy and longtime resident of Arnold,  wanted an additional option for people to easily get to and from the community college from nearby neighborhoods.