Maryland Route 175

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MD 175

Millersville Road, Ft. Meade Road, Jessup Road, Waterloo Road, Little Patuxent Pkwy, Rouse Pkwy

Length:

17.01 mi (27.37 km)

Decomd.:

N/A

From:

Millersville

Major
junctions:

MD 3

MD 677
MD 170
MD 32
MD 713
MD 295
MD 723
US 1
I-95
MD 108
US 29

To:

Columbia

Highways in Maryland
State highways - Minor - Decommissioned

Maryland Route 175 is a roughly 17-mile-long east-west road in central Maryland.

1 Counties traversed
2 Cities and towns
3 Route description
- 3.1 Rouse Parkway
4 Future work
5 Junction list
6 History
7 External links

[edit] Counties traversed

[edit] Cities and towns

[edit] Route description

MD 175 begins in Anne Arundel County at Maryland Route 3 (N Crain Highway) in Millersville and proceeds northwest through Gambrills, Odenton, Fort Meade, and Jessup. It then crosses into Howard County and continues through Waterloo and Columbia, terminating near U.S. Route 29. To the west of US 29, Route 175 becomes Little Patuxent Parkway, the main route through Columbia's Town Center (site of the Mall in Columbia).

[edit] Rouse Parkway

In May 2006, the approximately four-mile stretch of Route 175 between I-95 and U.S. 29 in Columbia was renamed the Rouse Parkway in honor of Jim and Patty Rouse.

[edit] Future work

There are plans to widen and improve the road between Maryland Route 170 in Odenton and the Baltimore Washington Parkway in Jessup due to the increasing development in and around Fort Meade.

[edit] Junction list

County	Location	Mile	Destinations	Notes
Anne Arundel	Millersville	0.0	Maryland Route 3 north / Robert Crain Highway - Baltimore (to I-97)	once continued east to
	Millersville	0.1	Maryland Route 3 south / Robert Crain Highway - Crofton, Bowie (to US 50/US 301)
	Gambrills		Gambrills Rd. north - to MD 3 Business
	Gambrills		Burns Crossing Rd. north - to MD 32
		2.3	Maryland Route 677 east / Sappington Station Rd. - to MD 32
	Odenton	3.3	Maryland Route 170 north / Telegraph Rd.-Piney Orchard Pkwy. south - Linthicum, Patuxent Research Refuge	runs north of
	Fort Meade	4.3	Maryland Route 32 / Patuxent Freeway - Savage, Annapolis	grade-separated interchange between routes
		5.9	Maryland Route 174 north / Reece Rd. - Severn, Glen Burnie	former route of
		7.3	Maryland Route 713 north / Ridge Rd.-Rockenbach Rd. south - Hanover, Arundel Mills Mall	runs north of
		8.4	B-W Parkway - Washington, D.C., Baltimore	grade-separated interchange between routes; is unsigned south of
	Jessup	9.0	Brock Bridge Rd. - Annapolis Junction (to MD 32)
			Wigley Ave. - to MD 103
		9.7	Maryland Route 723 north / Old Jessup Rd.	former route of
Howard			Dorsey Run Rd. - Maryland Wholesale Food Center (to MD 32)
	Waterloo	11.4	US 1 / Baltimore-Washington Blvd. - Savage, Elkridge
		12.0	Interstate 95 - Baltimore, Washington D.C.	grade-separated interchange between routes
		12.5	Maryland Route 108 west / Waterloo Rd. - Ellicott City	former route of
	Columbia		Columbia Gateway Drive south	grade-separated interchange between routes
		13.4	Snowden River Parkway - to Broken Land Parkway and MD 100	grade-separated interchange between routes
		14.0	Dobbin Rd. - Dobbin Center
		14.9	Tamar Drive - to Snowden River Parkway
			Thunder Hill Rd. - to Broken Land Parkway
		16.6	US 29 / Columbia Pike - Silver Spring, Baltimore (to I-70)	grade-separated interchange between routes
ends west of ; Little Patuxent Parkway continues west

[edit] History

Before World War II, MD 175 ran northeast from Fort Meade along MD 713; the current route through Fort Meade did not exist, and MD 175 south of the fort's boundaries was designated as Maryland Route 180. By the end of the 1940s, MD 180 had been decommissioned after the construction of MD 175 through the fort.

North of Fort Meade, MD 175 once traversed MD 108 and MD 104 to terminate at MD 103. After the construction of the Little Patuxent Parkway (now Rouse Parkway), MD 175 was diverted away from this route and into Columbia, terminating on the western edge of its interchange with US 29.