Maryland Route 62 (MD 62) is a
state highway
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in the
U.S. state of
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
. Known for most of its length as Little Antietam Road, the state highway runs from
MD 804 in
Chewsville north to
MD 60 in
Leitersburg in northeastern
Washington County. MD 62 was constructed in two sections in the mid 1910s and the early 1930s.
Route description
MD 62 begins at an intersection with unsigned MD 804 in Chewsville. MD 804, the old alignment of
MD 64 (Jefferson Boulevard), heads southwest as Trackside Drive to an intersection with MD 64 and east as Twin Springs Drive through the center of Chewsville. MD 62 heads west as two-lane undivided Twin Springs Drive and immediately crosses
CSX
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
's
Hanover Subdivision
The Hanover Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The line runs from Baltimore, Maryland, west to Hagerstown, Maryland, along several former Western Maryland Rail ...
railroad line at-grade. The state highway heads west until it reaches Little Antietam Road, onto which the state highway turns northeast. MD 62 passes through a mix of farmland, forest, and scattered residences and veers north at Old Forge Road. The state highway passes the
Good-Hartle Farm just before crossing Little Antietam Creek a short distance east of its confluence with
Antietam Creek. MD 62 continues to its northern terminus at MD 60 (Leitersburg Pike) just west of Leitersburg.
History
The first section of MD 62 was paved from Chewsville to Old Forge Road in 1916.
The remainder of the highway to Leitersburg was built in 1933.
MD 62 originally met MD 64 at its southern terminus.
After MD 64 bypassed Chewsville in 1956, the old alignment of MD 64 was designated MD 804B.
Junction list
See also
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MDRoads: MD 62
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