Golf in Essex

Essex is a Baltimore County waterfront community on the Eastern Avenue corridor, built on the peninsula between the Middle and Back rivers as a working-class housing development in the early twentieth century. Rocky Point Golf Course occupies a peninsula jutting into the Back River estuary, providing municipal golf with genuine water views in a community that has historically prized access to the Bay over suburban polish. Essex's identity—seafood restaurants, powerboats, steamed crabs—is authentically Baltimore without the Inner Harbor gloss, and the golf course reflects that character: accessible, waterfront-positioned, and embedded in neighborhood recreational life. The Back River's tidal estuary and the surrounding wetlands provide the wildlife and natural character that give Essex its distinctly Chesapeake Bay waterfront identity.