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South Mountain - Sharpsburg   print  

Starts at Shafer Memorial Park -33 Miles
Direction of Travel: Clockwise
Description: Hilly to rolling


This tour begins in the historic Town of Boonsboro, then heads south for a climb up South Mountain to the War Correspondents’ Arch at Gathland State Park. You then travel back up the valley to the Town of Keedysville, where water is available in the park, then on to Sharpsburg and the Antietam National Battlefield, site of the bloodiest day of the Civil War. After leaving the battlefield, you will pass the University of Maryland Experimental Farm and the Washington County Agricultural Education Center and Rural Heritage Museum.

At Turn For Street Name
0.00 S 0.22 Park Dr
0.22 R 0.42 SR 34 (Potomac St) @ stop
0.64 L 2.20 King Rd
2.84 R 5.09 SR 67 (Rohrersville Rd) @ stop
7.93 L 1.27 Townsend Rd
9.20 L 0.21 Gapland Rd
9.41 L 0.93 Gapland Rd from Townsend Monument
10.34 R 0.41 Greenbrier Rd
14.23 R 1.45 SR 67 (Rohrersville Rd) @ stop
11.79 L 1.55 Trego Rd
13.34 S 3.02 becomes Mount Briar Rd
16.36 L 0.31 Dogstreet Rd @ T stop
16.67 R 0.57 TRO Dogstreet Rd @ Geeting Rd
17.24 L 0.37 SR 845 (S Main St) @ stop
17.61 L 2.79 SR 34 (Shepherdstown Pike) @ stop
20.40 R 0.91 SR 65 (N Church St)
21.31 R 1.22 Dunker Church Rd (Antietam Battlefield)
22.53 L 0.05 Mansfield Ave
22.58 R 3.56 SR 65 (Sharpsburg Pike) @ stop
26.14 R 3.36 Manor Church Rd./td>
29.50 L 1.87 Mill Point Rd
31.37 R 2.06 US 40A (Old National Pike) @ stop
33.43 R 0.05 Park Dr
33.48 R 0.04 Park Dr
33.52 Finish Shafer Memorial Park
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