Status: Marked north-south.

Starting out among the streets of Salisbury, still at Main Street (old US 213/50), MD 12 makes a beeline for Snow Hill, where there's a dogleg and short concurrency with Business US 113. At its southern end, 12 is the only state route to cross into Virginia on dry land. Becomes VA Secondary 679 for Accomack County.

MD 12 at US 113, Snow Hill (picture 10/02/09)

MD 12 at Virginia border and Secondary 679. Note MD's '12' on VA's arrow signage. (picture 10/02/09)

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Status: Marked north-south.

NHS: Entire Length.

US 13 has its own page in the US highway section.

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Status: Marked east-west.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes:
535

Features a two mile concurrency with MD 331.

MD 14 at former MD 14/535, Eldorado (picture 06/28/2010)

MD 14 at MD 313, eastern end at Eldorado (picture 01/02/2000)

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Status: Marked north-south.

NHS: Entire Length.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes:
72 74 806 875

US 15 has its own page in the US highway section.

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Status: Marked east-west.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes:
817

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Status: Marked north-south.

This route was originally MD 33 until 1940. Route 17 was broken in two when the section between I-70 and US 40 was turned over to county maintenance. The remaining part of 17 north of 40 became MD 153. The middle section was later returned to the state, and 17 was restored to its original length.

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Status: Now part of MD 33.

Current MD 33 as MD 17, 1934.

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Status: Marked east-west.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes: 456 656 759 835 835A

Once the only road to Kent Island, it's still the main drag for locals trying to avoid Bay Bridge traffic. The original 18 stops and starts, as it has to hop one side or the other of 50-301. The traffic problem was helped when the new Kent Narrows bridge was built for 50-301, and the old drawbridge span was handed down to 18.

Sections of MD 18: 18A, 18B, and short piece of 18H are mainline segments signed as 18. Dan Moraseski clears the air with his map of the MD 18/US 50-301 corridor, the 'land of the 10 mph ramps', from the Bay Bridge east to the 50-301 split.
MD 18A: Love Point Rd., Business Pkwy, Main St. 5.30 mi.; from Love Point south to Business Pkwy., turning east onto Main St., ending at Marina Castle Rd. (MD 18H)
MD 18B: Main St., 4-H Park Rd. 15.06 mi.; from Castle Marina Rd. (MD 18H) east to MD 213. Although given the same suffix, there is no access across US 50 just south of the 50-301 split. Continuing from one side of 18 to the other requires using MD 456 or 656 to 50-301.
MD 18F: (no name) 0.04 mi.; connector between MD 18B (Main St.) and 50-301 at Exit 43A.
MD 18G: Links La. 0.06 mi.; south off MD 18 B just north of US 301 in Queenstown.
MD 18H: Castle Marina Rd. 0.19 mi.; from MD 18B to US 50-301 Exit 39A. This is the mainline 18 for 0.11 miles, connecting 18A and 18B. It runs north-south, perpendicular to 50-301.
MD 18I: Station La. 0.03 mi.; connecting ramp off eastbound 50-301. Once extended 0.19 mi. all the way south to 18.
MD 18J: Cox Neck Rd., Postal Rd. 0.45 mi.; Parallels 50-301 to the south.
MD 18T: Piney Creek Rd. 0.38 mi.; east from 18B to 552A north of 50-301.
MD 18U: Jackson Creek Rd. 0.02 mi.; Ramp from Exit 39A westbound.
MD 18V: Chester River Beach Rd. 0.65 mi.; from MD 18B north over 50-301 to Winchester Dr.
MD 18W: VFW Ave.0.33 mi.; from 50-301 Exit 44A westbound ramps north to 18V.
MD 18X: Hess Rd. 0.07 mi.; between 50-301 and Hess Frontage Rd. (18Y).
MD 18Y: Hess Frontage Rd. 0.11 mi.; east off 18X.
MD 18Z: Evans Ave. 0.03 mi.; from 50-301 Exit 44B eastbound ramp south to Evans Rd.

MD 18 at Kent Narrows Bridge (picture 1998)

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Status: Marked east-west.

Suffixed sections of MD 19:
MD 19A: South Main St. Church Hill. The old 213 before bypass of Church Hill, the entire Main Street loop was signed 19 although North Main is the official 19, but now South Main is only signed as "TO MD 213."

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Status: Marked north-south.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes:
674

The eastern of the two MD 20s, and the one which makes more sense in the old numbering system.

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Status: Decommissioned 1999.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes:
770

Unsure why two MD 20s, but many have thought a ferry once ran between them. There was, from the end of this 20, but to the end of 21 on the Eastern Shore at Tolchester Beach, then a popular resort.

North Point Road was the path of the attempted British march on Baltimore during the War of 1812, to which several monuments along the road attest. Before World War II, MD 20 was the main road down the Patapsco River Neck. MD 151 consisted of the current 718 and current 151 west to the Sparrows Point steel mill. Wartime truck traffic necessitated a 4-lane divided replacement for MD 20 from US 40 down to the mills. In 1942 the new North Point Blvd. was opened and designated MD 151, which overlaid the old 20. MD 20 is now one of those routes that seem to dart from side to side along the way, like 7, 144, and 18. Speaking of 18, there's a break in 20 where it runs smack into the outer ramps of the MD 150-151 cloverleaf. The northern terminus is at a dead end near the city line. Technically 20 also applies to the piece of North Point Rd. inside Baltimore City, but it's never been marked in recent memory, and contains a one-lane railroad underpass. The southern terminus was at an indeterminate point where a railroad once crossed it south of Edgemere, but has been rolled back to the MD 718 junction in Edgemere, forming an L-shaped junction.

Sections of MD 20: Running north to south, 20 A-D are mainline.
MD 20A: North Point Rd. 0.51 mi.; from Baltimore St. Bypass south to MD 151-150 ramp. It runs smack into the ramp north of MD 150.
MD 20B: North Point Rd. 2.72 mi.; from MD 150 south to MD 151.
MD 20C: North Point Rd. 1.30 mi.; loop east of 151.
MD 20D: North Point Rd. 0.74 mi.; from MD 151-158 south to MD 718.
MD 20E: (no name) 0.04 mi.; part of old road at northern end of 20C.

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Status: Marked east-west.

Western end has been rolled back to MD 445; it had ended at a boat ramp on the Chesapeake Bay at Tolchester Beach, once a popular amusement park in the twenties and thirties. A ferry once shuttled passengers from Baltimore to the park, and this route. It was to be the eastern end of a proposed northern Bay Bridge which never came to fruition.

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