Edith Throckmorton Neighborhood Park Labyrinth

In Kensington, Maryland, the Edith Throckmorton neighborhood park carries a permanent community labyrinth, built by and for the small suburban neighborhood that bears the park. It is a pocket-park walk of the kind the revival scattered through American suburbs. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a Medieval 8-circuit path; installed 2021.

Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.

Visiting

montgomeryparks.org carries the site's own information and schedule.