Hunt Valley is an
unincorporated community 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 lies just north of the city of
Baltimore, along the York Road (former old historic Baltimore-York Turnpike) which is now
Maryland Route 45 off
Interstate 83. The
Loch Raven Reservoir nearby is an important drinking water resource and with its surrounding forested watershed is one of three reservoirs (Loch Raven, Prettyboy and Liberty) established for the City of Baltimore and its surrounding metropolitan areas in
Baltimore County since the 1880s and expanded in the 1910s. Located at a
latitude of 39.5° North and
longitude 76.7° West.