Hunt Valley, Maryland

Hunt Valley is an unincorporated community located in Baltimore County, Maryland just north of the Baltimore, Maryland metro area, on Highway 145 off I-83, by Loch Raven Reservoir. Located at a latitude of 39.5° North and longitude 76.7° West.

Hunt Valley is the home of Firaxis Games, BreakAway Games, Sinclair Broadcast Group, McCormick & Company, AAI Corporation, Dumbar, TESSCO Technologies, and KCI Technologies, Inc. It was the former home of Noxell Corporation, makers of Noxzema, before Noxell was acquired by Procter and Gamble in the early 1990s. It was also the former home of PHH,which now resides in Sparks, Maryland which is a few miles to the north of Hunt Valley. MicroProse, a leading video game developer from the 1980s, was originally based in Hunt Valley. The Hunt Valley Inn is the most popular hotel in Maryland for Science fiction conventions and hosts Balticon, Shore Leave, Farpoint, Horrorfind and other theme-related conventions.

Hunt Valley is served by the Cockeysville, Maryland post office, and also is home to a satellite campus of the Community College of Baltimore County.

Many Baltimore County residents declaim that Hunt Valley doesn't actually exist—it is often grumbled that "Hunt Valley" is a fanciful name cooked up by real estate developers during the development of the area in the '70s and '80s; that is, "Hunt Valley" is more of a name brand than an actual place.

Public transportation

Hunt Valley is well known in the Baltimore area as a result of its public transportation. It is the northern terminus of the Light Rail line, and is also served by the Route 9 bus. Only one-half of light rail trains operate to the Hunt Valley terminus, with the remainder only running as far as Timonium. The frequency of service is only 20 minutes during rush hour, and 30 minutes midday and on weekends. Route 9 operates at similar frequencies at most times.