Destinations · Maryland
Laurel
MD · 39.0958, -76.8597
Star-Spangled Banner Byway, Historic National Road - Maryland and Booth's Escape are 3 of 13 signed byways within 30 miles of Laurel, Maryland.
Get in
Laurel is very easy to get to by car, as US-1 passes directly through its center, and to the east and west are I-95 and MD-295 (the Baltimore-Washington Pkwy). From either highway, take MD-198 (exit 33 off I-95) to go east-west into Laurel.
The same roads run past College Park, where they are ranked and described in full.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Laurel are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Star-Spangled Banner Byway · 2 mi
- Historic National Road - Maryland · 15 mi · national
- Booth's Escape · 17 mi
- Baltimore's Historic Charles Street · 18 mi · national
- George Washington Memorial Parkway · 18 mi · national
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway · 19 mi
Lookouts
- Rappe's Overlook · 11 mi
- Friction Wall Overlook · 12 mi
- Putney's Bridge · 16 mi
- Old quarry filled with trash · 16 mi
Named places
- Discovery Park · 0 mi
- Larry T. Smith Memorial Park · 0 mi
- Osprey · 0 mi
- Centennial Park · 0 mi
- Granville Gude Park & Lakehouse · 0 mi
- Emancipation Community Park · 1 mi
- Leo E. Wilson Community Park · 1 mi
- Alice B. McCullough Field · 1 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Savage · 3 mi
- Beltsville · 5 mi
- Greenbelt · 7 mi
- Berwyn Heights · 8 mi
- Colesville-Burtonsville · 8 mi
- College Park · 9 mi