Portal:Maryland roads/Selected article/January 2014

MD 170 northbound at crossing of Severn Run

Maryland Route 170 (MD 170) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs 12.98 miles (20.89 km) from MD 175 in Odenton north to MD 2 in Brooklyn Park. MD 170 connects the western Anne Arundel County communities of Odenton and Severn and the North County communities of Linthicum, Pumphrey, and Brooklyn Park with Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI Airport). The highway connects BWI Airport with Interstate 695 (I-695) and MD 100 and forms part of the Airport Loop, a circumferential highway that connects the airport and I-195 with many airport-related services. MD 170 originally served as the main highway between Baltimore and Fort George G. Meade. It was mostly constructed shortly after Camp Meade was established during World War I in the late 1910s. The Odenton–Severn portion of MD 170 was originally built as MD 554 in the 1930s, but became part of MD 170 in the mid-1940s. The highway originally passed through the area now occupied by BWI Airport but was relocated in the 1940s and 1950s. (more...)

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