HeartSmart Trails
The Heart Smart Trail program is intended to encourage people to take the first step toward a healthier lifestyle. Walking can reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, improve blood pressure control, decrease the risk for type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancer and help control weight. Heart Smart Trails are generally 1-mile in length or less and follow a hard surface, level path. Bronze medallions are embedded in the path every 1/10 of a mile so walkers can keep track of the distance they have traveled.Go ahead…take your first step toward a healthier life!
Our HeartSmart Trails await you.
Brookside Gardens HeartSmart Trail at Wheaton Regional Park
The trail follows a popular pathway around this 50-acre public display garden that is open year-round, sunrise to sunset. The trail begins at the rear of the Visitors Center. Use the "Walking Log" to record the date, distance you've traveled and the time it took. Click here for a map of this trail (pdf)- South Germantown Rec. Park HeartSmart Trail
The trail, 0.8 mile in length, starts near the King Dairy Mooseum and continues past a championship miniature golf course, a tot lot, Splash Playground and Central Park Pond where there is shoreline access to fishing and a model boat launch. If you are interested in longer walks, there are two other trails in the park that are over a mile. Trail map (pdf) - Martin Luther King Jr. Rec. Park HeartSmart Trail
The MLK Jr. HeartSmart trail is 0.8 miles in length. Begin at the kiosk on the path by the parking lot past the Swim Center. If you are interested in other walks, there are two other trails in the park you can follow. Trail map (pdf)
We are pleased to announce that the Montgomery Parks HeartSmart Trails are the Winning Website for the 2007 American Trails Website Contest for promotion of trails for health and physical activity.
Last Update: 02 April 2008
