Destinations · Maryland
MD · 38.9647, -76.7444
Star-Spangled Banner Byway, Roots and Tides Byway and Booth's Escape are 3 of 11 signed byways within 30 miles of Bowie, Maryland.
Understand
While Bowie's history goes back over a century, much of the city consists of ranch and Cape Cod homes built in the 1960s and 1970s as a planned community by Levitt & Sons, a noted real estate development company. Lately, Bowie has grown by annexing various developments that have sprouted up around the city's edge since the mid-1980s. The visitor can still find vestiges of historical Bowie—most notably, the railroads and horse farms that defined Bowie in the pre-Levitt era. One of America's oldest historically black universities is Bowie State University, located in Old Bowie.
The drives · Designated roads lead.
Ordered by federal designation, then by how close each one runs to Bowie. All-American Roads and National Scenic Byways are named by the Federal Highway Administration, not by us.
All-American Road · 17 mi out
National Scenic Byway · 22 mi out
National Scenic Byway · 23 mi out
All-American Road · 23 mi out
State scenic byway · starts in town
State scenic byway · 10 mi out
State scenic byway · 14 mi out
State scenic byway · 22 mi out
State scenic byway · 22 mi out
State scenic byway · 25 mi out
State scenic byway · 25 mi out
Planned by the Byway engine on real roads: every stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature, and the total time counts driving and the stops themselves.
Loop 1 · 4 h window · 94 mi
3 h 53 loop · 3 stops · back by 7:53 PM. Incorporates Baltimore's Historic Charles Street.
Touches Baltimore's Historic Charles Street, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Historic National Road - Maryland
Loop 2 · 8 h window · 272 mi
7 h 54 loop · 2 stops · back by 7:54 PM. Incorporates Baltimore's Historic Charles Street.
Touches Baltimore's Historic Charles Street, Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway, George Washington Memorial Parkway
Byway's engine bakes two loops from Bowie: 4 h, 94 miles, 3 stops; and 8 h, 272 miles, 2 stops. The time counts the driving and the stops themselves.
The 4 h loop stops at United Brick Corporation Brick Company, Trigadilly and Rappe's Overlook. Each stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature.
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
The engine starts from town, weaves the byways and verified stops around it, and hands back an honest schedule — zero hallucinations.
Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.