Perfect Weather to Hit Bowie’s Trails

Have you felt it? The weather is starting to give us little hints that fall is on the way—making this the perfect time to get outside and explore Bowie on foot or by bike.

Bowie has miles of trails winding through parks, neighborhoods and natural areas. You can enjoy familiar favorites around Allen Pond, explore the hiking and biking trails at Whitemarsh Park, or discover routes you may have driven past countless times without realizing they were there.

Wondering where to start? Pull up the City of Bowie’s 2025 Bike Map, also listed as the Map of Existing Public Trails. It’s an easy way to see how trails stretch across Bowie and choose a new route for your next outdoor adventure.

Bowie Insider Challenge: Grab a friend, your walking shoes—or your bike—and pick one Bowie trail you’ve never explored. You might discover a new favorite right in your own backyard!

Explore the Bowie Trails

Bowie Women, Here’s Your Friendship Challenge

September is Women’s Friendship Month—a perfect reminder to celebrate the women who make life a little lighter, funnier, and better.

Here in Bowie, friendship can look like morning walks at Allen Pond, catching up over coffee, volunteering together, celebrating milestones, or simply sending that perfectly timed “Are you okay?” or “How was your day” text.

This month, don’t wait for a birthday or special occasion to tell a friend what she means to you. Give her her flowers now. Celebrate the friend who showed up during the hard seasons, cheered for your wins, listened without judgment, made you laugh, or simply stayed.

The Bowie Insider Friendship Challenge: Choose one girlfriend this week and tell her exactly why you appreciate her. Send the text. Make the call. Buy the flowers. Schedule the lunch.

Sometimes the best celebration is simply saying, “I’m glad you’re my friend.”

BowiePulse™ Results

We ask one meaningful question about life here in Bowie. Sometimes it'll be fun. Sometimes it'll be serious. But it will always reflect what matters most to the people who live here.

The question of the week was: What would YOU add to Bowie Town Center?

Hands down first place went to my favorite - The Indoor Farmers/Artisan Market: Year-round home for local produce, baked goods, specialty foods, handmade products. 

Community Feedback:

• Additional security.

• Add free or low-cost community gathering space for groups like book clubs, writers' groups, mutual aid organizations, clubs, and citizens' organizations. We desperately need places to meet other than someone's living room. ***Love this - Any ideas to bring this to life?***

• We tend to travel either into Washington DC, or Northern VA to experience such. **** Always nice not to have to commute downtown, yes to local. ***

Second place went to Upscale dining, rooftop restaurant, locally owned restaurant

Third place tied with “Culinary Experience: Cooking classes, wine-pairing dinners, date nights & visiting-chef experiences”

Community Feedback:

• Locally owned restaurants! …I miss TJ Elliots …We support small business. ***Love to keep it in Bowie when we can***

• Amish food market also Amish furniture and crafts. Also Bowie should have flags that honor military personnel from Bowie with their picture on it. Honor our heroes! ***Double yes***

and Adult Social Club: Lounge instead of a club, live music, cocktails, small plates, trivia.

• For an older, mature crowd. …Old style club like back in the day. Like Half Note used to be or Martini’s in southern MD years ago. Just fun, good music, good food, relaxed atmosphere- do not have to dress up. *** Half Note was a really nice vibe!” ***

• Would like local farmers market and artisan market there should be space to do both. Like the have in Savage Mills in Laurel. ***Would love to have this type of set up in Bowie.***

BowiePulse™ Question of the Week

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Remembering 9/11 — 25 Years Later

We remember. We honor. We will never forget.

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Bowie International Festival

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Prince George’s County Fair

September 10 - 13 at Show Place Arena 14800 Pennsylvania Ave Upper Marlboro

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Red Sky Over Halifax: A New Musical Workshop Presentation

Message from the Executive Director of Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Save the Date: Cannabis Reinvestment & Restoration Town Hall

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Your one stop shop of things to do in Bowie!

September 10

• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 0-2, Bowie Library 15210 Annapolis Rd. Bowie 10:15am - 10:45am

• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 2-3, South Bowie Library 15301 Hall Rd. Bowie 11:00am - 11:30am

• Monarch Waystations: Discoveries and Maintenance, Bowie Senior Center 14900 Health Center Dr Bowie 6:00pm - 7:30pm

• Prince George’s County Fair (Sept 10 - 13) 14900 Pennsylvania Ave. Upper Marlboro. Weekdays 5:00pm - 10:00pm. Sat 11:00am - 10:00pm. Sunday 11:00am - 6:00pm

September 11

• 9/11 25th Anniversary Ceremony, Allen Pond Park 3330 Northview Dr.
  Bowie 9:00am - 10:30am

• Hidden Heroes 9/11 Day of Remembrance Service & Panel, Bowie State University Student Center, Wiseman Ballroom14000 Jericho Park Rd. Bowie 9:00am - 1:00pm

• Chair Yoga, Belair Mansion 12207 Tulip Grove Dr. Bowie 10:00am - 11:00am

• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 3-5, Bowie Library 15210 Annapolis Rd. Bowie 10:15am - 10:45am

September 12

• Annual Journey to ExCellence 5K Walk/Run, Fairwood Community Park, 12390 Fairwood Pkwy, Bowie 9:00am

• Bowie International Festival, Allen Pond Park 3330 Northview Drive
  Bowie 11:00am - 3:00pm

• Fall Porch Pot Workshop, Patuxent Nursery 2410 Crain Highway
  Bowie 11:00am - 3:00pm

• Game On: Board Game Fun, Bowie Library 15210 Annapolis Rd. Bowie 1:00pm - 4:00pm

• Creative Entertainment Presents: Luther Re-Lives, Bowie Center for the Performing Arts 15200 Annapolis Rd Bowie 7:30pm

September 13

• Bowie Farmer's Market Featuring Petting Zoo, Bowie High School Parking Lot 15200 Annapolis Rd. Bowie 9:00am - 1:00pm

• Concerts for Causes Inc. Summer Concert Series - "Sharon Thomas & da Juke Joint", Bowie Town Center Bowie 15606 Emerald Way, Bowie 6:00pm - 8:00pm

September 14

• Walk With Ease, Fairwood Community Park 12390 Fairwood Parkway
  Bowie 9:00am - 10:00am

September 15

• Senior Program: Emergency Preparedness - Vibrio, Bowie Senior Center 14900 Health Center Drive Bowie 10:15am - 11:15am

• Pins and Needles: Crochet, South Bowie Library 15301 Hall Rd. Bowie 2:00pm - 4:00pm

• Kids Create: Cubism, South Bowie Library 15301 Hall Rd. Bowie 6:30pm - 7:30pm

September 16

• Senior Center: Magic Show, Bowie Senior Center 14900 Health Center Drive Bowie 12:00pm - 1:00pm

• Senior Program: Grief Workshop, Bowie Senior Center 14900 Health Center Drive Bowie 1:00pm - 3:00pm

• Positively Moving - Presented by ArtStream, South Bowie Library 15301 Hall Rd. Bowie 1:30pm - 3:00pm

• Wealth and Al summit, 14000 Pecan Ridge Way Bowie 6:30pm

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