Byway
All byways
Classic road trip · Virginia · West Virginia · Maryland +1 more

Braddock Expedition

States
4
Stops
5 of 21 mapped
Loading map…
The route · stop by stop
  1. 1
    Alexandria, Virginia (Founders Park)
    Trip's starting point at King Street and the Potomac River · Former Alexandria port area
  2. 2
    Carlyle House
    Braddock's headquarters in Alexandria · Site of meeting with five colonial governors
  3. 3
    Old Fairfax Courthouse (Tysons Corner)
    First night's camp for the 44th regiment · Area now heavily developed suburbs
  4. 4
    Coleman's Ordinary
    Named waypoint between Fairfax Courthouse and Leesburg segment
  5. 5
    Mr. Minor's Inn
    Named waypoint on the route toward Leesburg
  7. 7
    Waterford, Virginia
    Historic village on Halkett's route · Old Waterford Road follows the 1755 road path
  8. 8
    Braddock Oak site (Old Wheatland Road)
    Marked a historic way stop for troops · Tree fell after a 1972 tropical storm
  9. 9
    Keyes' Ford (Shenandoah River crossing)
    Possible site where troops ferried across the Shenandoah River
  11. 11
    Middleway, West Virginia
    Point where the 44th and 48th regiments reunited
  12. 12
    Brucetown, West Virginia
    Army camped at Widow Littler's Tavern · Crossing point of the Opequon at Abril's Ford nearby
  13. 13
    Forks of the Cacapon
    Virginia/West Virginia state line crossing nearby · Site of a fort built after Braddock's defeat · Optional detour to Bloomery iron furnace
  14. 14
    Fort Cumberland (Cumberland, Maryland)
    Final staging point where both regiments united before marching west · Troops ferried the Potomac near Thomas Cresap's farm beforehand
  17. 17
    Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania
    Reached via US 119
  19. 19
    Duquesne, Pennsylvania
    Reached via Lincoln Highway (US 30) and Duquesne Blvd
  20. 20
    Braddock's Field / Battlefield (Monongahela River)
    Site of the Battle of the Monongahela, July 9 1755 · Crossed via the Rankin bridge and Braddock Avenue
  21. 21
    Fort Duquesne (present-day Pittsburgh)
    Expedition's ultimate objective, never captured · End point of the itinerary
Drive it yourself

Turn Braddock Expedition into your own drive.

Same start, same finish — Byway plans the stops for your day: your taste, real weather, real hours, every place verified. Zero hallucinations.

Plan this drive →
Official byways along this route

Route structure sourced from the Wikivoyage guide (CC BY-SA 4.0). Roads, distances, and drive times computed by the Byway routing engine.