Hunt Valley is positioned in Maryland Hunt Valley - Hunt Valley Hunt Valley Towne Centre in Hunt Valley, Maryland Hunt Valley Business Park in Hunt Valley, Maryland Horse Racing right outside Hunt Valley, Maryland Hunt Valley is an unincorporated improve in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
Its traditional name was based on being just east of Maryland's traditional Horse Country (like the Kentucky Blue Grass region), and the site of the venerable Maryland Hunt Cup championship of steeplechase horse racing and jumping established 1894.
It was also the former home of PHH and Firaxis Games, both of which now reside in Sparks, Maryland which is a several miles to the north of Hunt Valley.
Hunt Valley is served by the old Cockeysville, Maryland postal service, which is also a neighbor of the burgeoning Timonium suburban community, and also is home to a satellite ground of the Community College of Baltimore County in this northern central region of Baltimore County (which has three regular full-size campuses - Catonsville in the southwest, Dundalk in the southeast and Essex in the east).
Nearby is the Timonium Race Course which although not as active as in decades past, still has a small amount of horse racing in conjunction with better known small-town tracks such as northwest Baltimore City's Pimlico Race Course (home of the annual Preakness Stakes, run since 1873 as one of throughbred horse racing's Triple Crown) and Laurel Park Racecourse in the northeastern suburbs of Washington, D.C.'s Prince George's County, Maryland.
Development restrictions to the west of Hunt Valley and the Baltimore-Harrisburg Expressway (Interstate 83) and its alongside historic York Road (Maryland Route 45) were first envisioned in the late 1950s by famed American architect and urban planner David A.
Mc - Harg at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Fine Arts (later known as the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, after 2003, also known as Penn - Design) envisioned the preservation of the Baltimore County valleys in their 1963 booklet A Plan for the Green Spring and Worthington Valleys.
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