Maryland Route 137

Maryland Route 137
Mount Carmel Road
Maryland Route 137 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by MDSHA
Length:	8.50 mi (13.68 km)
Existed:	1927 – present
Tourist routes:	Horses and Hounds Scenic Byway
Major junctions
West end:	Gunpowder Road near Hampstead
	MD 25 near Hampstead I-83 near Hereford
East end:	MD 45 at Hereford
Location
Counties:	Baltimore
Highway system
Maryland highway system Interstate US State Scenic Byways ← MD 136 MD 138 →

MD 25 near Hampstead

Maryland Route 137 (MD 137) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Mount Carmel Road, the state highway runs 8.50 miles (13.68 km) from Gunpowder Road near Hampstead east to MD 45 at Hereford in northern Baltimore County. MD 137 was built in the early 1920s.

MD 137 begins at a three-way intersection with Gunpowder Road, which heads east toward Prettyboy Reservoir, and a county-maintained continuation of Mount Carmel Road west toward Hampstead. Mount Carmel Road becomes Lower Beckleysville Road on entering Carroll County and intersects MD 88 (Black Rock Road). MD 137 heads south and curves east and intersects MD 25 (Falls Road). The state highway continues east through farmland along the drainage divide between Gunpowder Falls to the north and its tributary Western Run to the south and passes its namesake church, now named Mount Carmel United Methodist Church. MD 137 meets Interstate 83 (I-83) (Harrisburg Expressway) at a diamond interchange with ramps staggered into four intersections. Opposite the easternmost ramp, which is from northbound I-83 to MD 137, is unsigned MD 889, the access road to the Maryland State Highway Administration's Hereford Shop. East of I-83, MD 137 reaches its eastern terminus at a three-way intersection with MD 45 (York Road) 0.10-mile (0.16 km) north of the western terminus of MD 138 (Monkton Road).