The Cross Country Improvement Association is among the oldest community associations in Baltimore. Our members work together to make our area one of the most attractive, livable and safest area in the city. Our association have provided a voice for neighborhood residents in city hall as well as finding ways to maximize our quality of life.

Suburban style living in an urban setting.

Primarily affordable residential homes with many apartments suitable for young people starting out as well as more upscale apartments or condos for empty nesters and retired individuals.

By 1915, some divisions activity was taking place in two locations of the Cross Country area. "Bancroft Park" was an ambitious paper project that anticipated development along Bancroft Road and Clarks Lane both North and South of Western Run. By 1940, however, very little building had taken place in the area. Some subdivision of land and a little building was also taking place along W. Strathmore Avenue, adjacent to the Glen community With the exception of several large apartment buildings which were erected east of Park Heights Avenue in the 1920's, most residential construction took place between 1940 to 1960. The Cross Country Improvement Association was started in 1971.

Cross Country Elementary School has recently expanded to a Kindergarten to Eighth Grade School.