Maryland Route 145
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Maryland Route 145 highlighted in red
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| Maintained by MDSHA | ||||
| Length: | 10.34 mi (16.64 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1927 – present | |||
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 MD 45 in Cockeysville
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 MD 146 in Jacksonville
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 MD 165 near Baldwin
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| Counties: | Baltimore | |||
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Maryland Route 145 (MD 145) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs 10.34 miles (16.64 km) from MD 45 in Cockeysville east to MD 165 near Baldwin. MD 145 connects the north-central and eastern portions of Baltimore County via Jacksonville. The first section of the highway was built from Loch Raven Reservoir to Jacksonville in the early 1910s. The remainder of MD 145 east to Baldwin was completed in the mid-1920s. The state highway was extended west to Cockeysville in the early 1980s in a maintenance swap. When MD 145's bridge over Loch Raven Reservoir was replaced in 2000, the old bridge from 1922 was preserved.
MD 145 begins at an intersection with MD 45 (York Road) in Cockeysville. The state highway heads east as two-lane Ashland Road, which crosses over Western Run. At Ashland Road, MD 145 continues northeast on Paper Mill Road; Ashland Road leads to the southern terminus of the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail. The state highway veers east again and intersects the rail trail at an acute angle; just east of the crosswalk is a parking lot serving the trail. MD 145 enters the parkland surrounding Loch Raven Reservoir and crosses the upper reach of the reservoir on a steel box arch bridge. Immediately to the south is the grey arch through truss bridge that previously carried MD 145 across the reservoir. The state highway follows Greene Branch out of the valley of Gunpowder Falls. MD 145 leaves the Loch Raven Reservoir park reservation east of Phoenix Road and passes through a golf course. The state highway intersects MD 146 (Jarrettsville Pike) at an oblique intersection in the community of Jacksonville, which is also known as Phoenix. MD 145 continues east as Sweet Air Road, which passes through the hamlet of the same name around Manor Road. The state highway reaches its eastern terminus at MD 165 (Baldwin Mill Road) north of Baldwin. Sweet Air Road continues east as a county highway to a cul-de-sac near Little Gunpowder Falls.
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