Suitland Parkway

The Suitland Parkway is a parkway in Washington, D.C., and Prince George's County, Maryland, maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. Built during World War II to provide a road connection between military facilities in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, it opened on December 9, 1944. It connected Camp Springs (now Andrews Air Force Base) in Prince George's County with Bolling Air Force Base and the Pentagon. [ [http://www.nps.gov/archive/nace/suitlandparkway.htm Suitland Parkway (U.S. Reservation 675)] , National Park Service]

The Suitland Parkway is 9.35 miles long. Its eastern terminus is at Pennsylvania Avenue (Maryland Route 4), just outside the Capital Beltway and near Andrews Air Force Base. Its western terminus is at Interstate 295 and the northbound approach to the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge.

The parkway is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also part of the National Highway System. The eastern half was a two-lane limited-access road, and the western half a four-lane divided limited-access road. In the early 1990s the eastern half was doubled in size to match the western half. [citation
url=http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/roads/shs4.htm
title=Historic Roads in the National Park System
date=August 23, 2004
publisher=National Park Service] There are no shoulders and a few traffic lights, with no left turns allowed at most of them.

There is a poorly maintained bicycle and jogging path along the north (westbound) side of the Parkway. It begins at the intersection of Sheridan and Pomeroy Roads, Southeast, and runs along the highway to one-half mile west of the Naylor Road exit in Prince Georges County, MD. At that point, one must ride or walk along the grass next to the highway to go any further.

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* [http://www.nps.gov/suit/index.htm Suitland Parkway, from the National Park Service]