The way points of this bicycle route:
START; Go SOUTH on SHARPSBURG Pike [Rt. 65], and make first <LEFT @ BLOODY LANE.
<----LEFT @ SHEPHERDSTOWN Pk. [Rt. 34].
RIGHT----> @ MAIN St. [Rt. 845]. Keedysville still looks much as it did when during the battle in 1862.
RIGHT----> @ SHEPHERDSTOWN Pk. [Rt. 34] (T).
<----LEFT @ MAIN St. [Alt. U.S. Rt. 40], then RIGHT----> @ MAPLEVILLE Rd. [Rt. 66]. (Ahead, you will cross U.S. Rt. 40, then I-70.)
RIGHT----> @ SMITHSBURG Pk. [Rt. 64]. (Ahead, you will cross Rt. 77.)
RIGHT----> @ RAVEN ROCK Rd. [Rt. 491]. (This road will take you over South Mountain {the Blue Ridge}.)
^ Becomes Royer Rd.
^ Continue on FORT RITCHIE Rd. [Rt. 550].
<----LEFT @ EYLER Ave., which becomes Church St., then Monterey Lane ahead.
RIGHT----> @ BUCHANAN Trail [Rt. 16], just past Wyndham Ave. ( President Buchanan was president of the U.S. when South Carolina seceded from the Union in December of 1860. The Confederate Army retreated through Blue Ridge Summit after the battle of Gettysburg.)
<----LEFT @ JACKS MOUNTAIN Rd.
<----LEFT @ FAIRFIELD Rd. [Rt. 116].
Past Fairfield, turn RIGHT----> @ BULLFROG Rd.
<----LEFT @ PUMPING STATION Rd.
Free observation tower on right at intersection with Confederate Ave. Ahead, you will cross Emmitsburg Rd. [Rt. 15].
^ Cross Taneytown Rd. [Rt. 134], and continue on BLACKSMITH SHOP Rd.
<----LEFT @ BALTIMORE Pk. [Rt. 97]. The Visitor Center is ahead on the right.
Welcome to Bikely, take a step by step tour of this path:
Press Start Tour - then use the navigation buttons below to move along the path.
The Maryland CIVIL WAR Trail
Tagged with: Recreational, Onroad, Steep, Intermediate, Rural, Scenic, Touring
