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Suitland Parkway
Suitland Parkway
Coordinates: 38°50′49″N 76°58′05″W 38.847°N 076.968°W / 38.847; -076.968
Suitland Parkway U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Access Points
Traffic signals exist at Firth Sterling Ave and Stanton Rd in D.C., and at Naylor Rd, Forestville Rd, and Maryland Route 4 in Prince George’s County. No left turns are allowed from Suitland Pkwy at Naylor Rd. Full interchanges are provided at Branch Ave (Maryland Route 5), Silver Hill Rd (Maryland Route 458), Suitland Rd, and the Andrews Air Force Base North Gate. Additional on-ramps are provided eastbound from Sumner Rd SE near Martin Luther King Ave in D.C., and from Maryland Route 337. An additional westbound off-ramp to Sheridan Rd SE in D.C. is also provided. There is no direct access between Suitland Parkway and the I-95/ I-495 Capital Beltway. One unsignalized atgrade intersection exists at Meadowview Dr (between Silver Hill Rd and Suitland Rd).
Nearest city: Built/Founded: Governing body: Added to NRHP:
Suitland, Maryland 1944 National Park Service 1995-06-02[1]
The Suitland Parkway is a parkway in Washington, D.C., and Prince George’s County, Maryland, maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. Conceived in 1937, it was 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.[2] The Suitland Parkway is 9.35 miles (15.05 km) 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.[3]
Bicycle/Pedestrian Access
There are no paved shoulders along the road, although some locations have a grassy-type shoulder. There is a poorly maintained bicycle and jogging path along the north (westbound) side of the Parkway within D.C.. It begins at the intersection of Sheridan and Pomeroy Roads, Southeast, and runs along the highway to near the Southern Ave overpass on the D.C./Prince George’s County border.
References
[1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-10-25. http://www.nr.nps.gov/. [2] Suitland Parkway (U.S. Reservation 675), National Park Service [3] Historic Roads in the National Park System, National Park Service, August
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Suitland Parkway
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External links
• Suitland Parkway, Prince George’s County, Inventory No.: PG:76A-22, including photo in 1990, at Maryland Historical Trust website
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