Mount Royal/Mica - (MARC Light RailLink)

Mt. Royal/MICA (originally University of Baltimore/Mt. Royal) is the most northern station in Downtown Baltimore along the main Light Rail alignment and is just a six minute just over a quarter-mile walk from Baltimore Penn Station that also has its only little light rail branch. As of 2025 this branch hasn't operated since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic due to a major construction project at Penn Station. The junction of these tracks (that form a single track before the Penn Station terminus) are visible at the northern end of the platforms.

The station contains two side platforms that begin just after the tracks curve slightly after the grade-crossing of Mount Royal Avenue and runs north. This grade-crossing is just signalized no crossing gates. This grade-crossing provides basically the only station entrance, with a secondary set of steps and a short ramp up to a tiny entrance plaza just above the Southbound platform. This is because the stop is built into a slight hill.

Passenger amenities consist of a now black (was white and blue when I visited the station in 2009) shelter structure on each platform. There are still the remaining Blue signs saying the station’s old name University of Baltimore/Mt. Royal.
Photos 1 & 2: June 16, 2009; 3-14: October 10, 2015;

Looking across Mt. Royal Avenue at the station

The TVM, ADA mini-high platform at the same-level as the entrance at the main entrance to the Southbound platform

The University of Baltimore-Mount Royal Station entrance totem sign

TVMs and nearby sign for Univ. of Baltimore-Mount Royal

Passengers wait for a southbound train

LRV #5032 leaves

LRV #5032 leaves the station for BWI

LRV #5032 leaves for Thurgood Marshall while a train approaches for Hunt Valley

Looking down the Blue and white painted platform at Mount Royal, the switches of the branch off to Penn Station are visible in the distance

The various Look Both Ways Before Crossing sign at Southbound Mt. Royal

Blue advertising panels and steps to leave the platform at Mt. Royal/Mica

The pedestrian-crossing over the southern end of the light rail platforms, this stop is the northernmost point of downtown street running and where the surface of the tracks transitions from concrete on Belgian block to normal railroad ties and ballast

A Look Both Ways Before Crossing sign on the platform