Suitland Parkway
| Suitland Parkway | |
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Suitland Parkway highlighted in red
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| Route information | |
| Maintained by NPS | |
| Length: | 9.1 mi (14.6 km) |
| Existed: | 1944 – present |
| Restrictions: | No commercial vehicles |
| Major junctions | |
| West end: |
 I‑295 in Washington, D.C.
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 MD 5 in Suitland, Maryland MD 458 in Suitland, Maryland MD 337 in Forestville, Maryland
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| East end: |
 MD 4 in Forestville, Maryland |
| Highway system | |
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Suitland Parkway
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| Nearest city | Suitland, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38°50′49″N 76°58′5″W / 38.84694°N 76.96806°WCoordinates: 38°50′49″N 76°58′5″W / 38.84694°N 76.96806°W |
| Area | 418.9 acres (169.5 ha) |
| Built | 1944 |
| MPS | Parkways of the National Capital Region MPS |
| NRHP Reference # | 95000604 |
| Added to NRHP | June 2, 1995 |
The Suitland Parkway is a parkway in Washington, D.C., and Prince George's County, Maryland, maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. Conceived in 1937, it was built during World War II to provide a road connection between military facilities in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, and opened on December 9, 1944. It connected Camp Springs (now Andrews Air Force Base) in Prince George's County with Bolling Air Force Base and the Pentagon.
The Suitland Parkway is 9.35 miles (15.05 km) long. Its eastern terminus is at Pennsylvania Avenue (Maryland Route 4), just outside the Capital Beltway and near Andrews Air Force Base . Its western terminus is at Interstate 295 and the northbound approach to the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge.
The parkway was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is also part of the National Highway System. The eastern half was a two-lane limited-access road, and the western half a four-lane divided limited-access road. In the early 1990s the eastern half was doubled in size to match the western half.
The Suitland Parkway begins at an interchange with I-295 and South Capitol Street in Washington, D.C., heading southeast as a four-lane divided highway. The road intersects Firth Sterling Avenue SE at a traffic light before passing near residential areas as a limited-access road and curving to the south. Just after Firth Sterling Avenue SE, the parkway used to intersect a railroad line at a road crossing. The tracks have been abandoned and removed, but signage for the old railroad crossing can still be seen. The parkway comes to a westbound exit for Sheridan Road SE and an eastbound entrance from Sumner Road SE. that provides access to Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE. At the intersection of Sheridan Road SE and Pomeroy Road SE, a bike path begins and runs parallel to the westbound lanes of the parkway through the remainder of Washington, D.C. Past this, the Suitland Parkway curves east through woods and reaches a traffic light with Stanton Road SE. The road curves southeast and comes to a full interchange with Alabama Avenue SE, with access to and from the westbound direction of the parkway provided by Irving Street SE. Following this, the parkway heads east into woods.
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