Maryland Route 18

Maryland Route 18 runs for 20 miles 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.

Looking at its intersection with Maryland Route 8, it may appear that Route 18 ends there, however it actually turns north onto Business Parkway and continues to Love Point [1], while Route 8 begins here and goes south. The other end of the highway is at an intersection with Maryland Route 213 in Centreville.

Cities and towns

• Love Point
• Stevensville
• Chester
• Kent Narrows
• Grasonville
• Queenstown
• Centreville

Major junctions

County	Location	Mile	Destinations	Notes
Queen Anne's	Love Point	0.00	Love Point Road	Western terminus, Love Point Road joins
		1.55	Blue Bay Drive / Old Love Point Road
	Stevensville	3.01	Love Point Road / (MD 835C)	Love Point Road leaves, Business Parkway begins
		3.55	MD 8 South / Business Parkway / Skipjack Parkway - Annapolis, Romancoke	MD 18 turns onto Main Street, mainline continues as MD 8, Business Parkway
		3.80	Love Point Road (MD 759B)
		3.95	East Main Street / (MD 835C)	Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway joins
		Cox Creek bridge - Cox Creek
	Stevensville / Chester postal boundary	5.39/0.00	Castle Marina Road to US 50 West	roundabout, MD 18A ends, MD 18B begins
	Chester	0.48	Postal Road - Chester
		0.61	MD 552 / Dominion Road to US 50 East
	Kent Narrows	2.08	US 50 / US 301 / (Blue Star Memorial Highway)
		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)	MD 18B ends, MD 18S begins
		0.28	MD 656 / Friel Road
		0.33/0.00	US 301 / (Blue Star Memorial Highway)	No direct access across US 301, MD 18S ends, MD 18C begins
		0.45	MD 456 / Del Rhodes Avenue
	Centreville	6.71	MD 213 / Centreville Road	Eastern terminus

Notes

• There is no route numbered MD 18, the route that is signed as MD 18 is made up of MD 18A, MD 18B, MD 18S, and MD 18C.

See also

• List of Maryland state highways

External links

• MD 18 on mdroads.com