ICYMI: Best Places in Baltimore County to Take Out-of-Towners

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD–Memorial Day is coming and so are your friends and family!

With the weather getting warmer and graduation season starting, your home is sure to be filled with out-of-town guests. How will you keep them entertained and well fed?

Leave it to Patch Readers in Baltimore County to be your personal tour guides.

We asked Baltimore County residents where they’d take their long-weekend lodgers. Here’s a list of the best eats and awesome activities in your neighborhood:

• "My parents like to go to Pappas. (We moved out of Perry Hall in 1988. This is where they like to go when they come up from St. Mary's County.)"
• "The Ice Cream Cottage - great ice cream and family atmosphere."
• "The boulevard diner! A local Dundalk owned restaurant..."
• "The dog park!"
• "Ryleigh's Oyster House On Padonia is great."
• "Schultz's. BEST crabs and lobster around. The prices are great for the amount of food you get too. #cheeseballs"
• "The light rail. . . to catch a ride to watch an O's game at OPaCY! Or, the Hampton House."
• "Catonsville Gourmet and then SugarBakers Cakes for dessert!!"
• "Gunpowder Lodge and Chapel Hill Farm. My out of town dad loves crabs at Conrad's or take out crabs from Bill's Seafood."
• "Depends on where they're from you could say: Food wise Pizza johns Ever heard of Royal farms? No? Well you're in for a treat with their world famous chicken Unique experience Ever been to a drive in? A what? They still exist? Enter Benji's. Into history? Museum right in middle of eastern by cvs. Just a few ideas"

If these suggestions don’t make the mark, take your guests on Maryland’s Best “Ice Cream Trail” Passport Challenge!

From May 20 to Sept. 23, ice cream lovers are invited to visit each of Maryland’s nine dairy farms, try the ice cream, and answer a dairy-themed trivia question. Each visit earns a passport stamp.

Get all nine stamps, mail them in, and a select number of passports will be picked from the lot and awarded prizes.

And check out our Perry Hall Patch calendar for a list of Memorial Day weekend events!

If your favorite spot didn’t make the list, share it in the comments below or on our Perry Hall Patch Facebook page.