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Revision as of 20:49, 29 June 2010
 Maryland Route 18 | ||||
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| Love Point Road, Main Street, 4-H Park Road | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by MDSHA | ||||
| Length | 20.47 mi[1] (32.94 km) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end | End of state maintenance at Love Point | |||
 MD 8 US 301 | ||||
| East end |  MD 213 in Centreville | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Maryland | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Maryland Route 18 is a Maryland state highway that runs for 20 miles (32 km) through Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and for much of its length it is known as Main Street, serving as the Main Street for the towns it connects. Route 18 is also part of the Chesapeake Country National Scenic Byway.
Route 18 used to be one of the main east–west roads in Queen Anne's County prior to the routing of U.S. Route 50 onto the Eastern Shore. It now serves mainly local traffic, however due to increasing backups on Route 50, it has attracted motorists as an alternate route to reach the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, although the Maryland State Highway Administration discourages the practice with signs indicating that Bay Bridge-bound traffic should stay on US 50.
At its intersection with Maryland Route 8, Route 18 turns north onto Business Parkway and continues to Love Point [1]. The other end of the highway is at an intersection with Maryland Route 213 in Centreville.
![[1]](http://www.lostagain.net/mdends/0/8/8n.jpg){kind=link}
There is no route that is officially numbered MD 18; the route that is signed as MD 18 is made up of MD 18A, MD 18B, MD 18S, and MD 18C.
Junction list
The entire route is in Queen Anne's County.
| Location | Mile | Destinations | Notes |
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| Love Point | 0.00 | Love Point Road | Western terminus, beginning of state maintenance |
| 1.55 | Blue Bay Drive / Old Love Point Road | ||
| Stevensville | 3.01 |  MD 835 (Love Point Road)
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MD 18 becomes Business Parkway |
| 3.55 |  MD 8 south (Business Parkway, Skipjack Parkway) – Annapolis, Romancoke
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MD 18 turns onto Main Street | |
| 3.80 |  MD 759 (Love Point Road) - Historic Stevensville
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| 3.95 | MD 835 (East Main Street)
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Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway joins MD 18 | |
| Cox Creek bridge - Cox Creek | |||
| Stevensville / Chester postal boundary | 5.39/0.00 |    To US 50 west (Castle Marina Road)
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roundabout, MD 18A ends, MD 18B begins |
| Chester | 0.48 | Postal Road - Chester | |
| 0.61 |   MD 552 (Dominion Road) to US 50 east
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| Kent Narrows | 2.08 | US 50 / US 301 (Blue Star Memorial Highway)
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| Old Kent Narrows Bridge - Kent Narrows | |||
| 2.82 | Kent Narrows Way South | ||
| Grasonville | 4.61 | Chester River Beach Road | |
| 5.19 | Station Lane | ||
| 5.67 | Evans Avenue | ||
| 6.48 | Nesbit Road | ||
| Queenstown | 7.94/0.00 | US 50 (Ocean Gateway)
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MD 18B ends, MD 18S begins |
| 0.28 |  MD 656 (Friel Road)
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| 0.33/0.00 | US 301 (Blue Star Memorial Highway)
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No direct access across US 301, MD 18S ends, MD 18C begins | |
| 0.45 |  MD 456 (Del Rhodes Avenue)
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| Centreville | 6.71 | MD 213 (Centreville Road)
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Eastern terminus |
Related routes
References
- ^ Maryland State Highway Administration (2008). "Highway Location Reference: Queen Anne's County" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-16.