Columbia, MD · separated · mixed
Patuxent Branch Trail
The Patuxent Branch Trail is a 10.4-mile (16.7 km) trail in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It mostly runs along the path of the Patuxent River, just south of Maryland Route 32.
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Today's verdict
Great day to get the road bike out.
- 48°F air — right in road cycling's sweet spot
Best for road cycling today
Route map
Orange marker is the start. Click the map to enable scroll-zoom — the polyline is approximate; use Ride with GPS or Komoot for turn-by-turn.
Atmosphere
- Air temp48°FClear
- Wind— mphNE
- Rain3%Next 24h: 0.00"
- Air qualityAQI 52PM2.5 · Moderate
- Humidity87%
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrymixed surface
- Sunrise7:29 AM
- Sunset6:12 PM617 min remaining
Best time today
9 AM looks best — 53°F · 6 mph N wind · sunny. 10 AM is a close second (71/100).
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Wind on this route
Calm — wind is a non-factor today.
Currently 0 mph from the N (0°). Relative to this ride's overall bearing, a quartering headwind.
- Leg 1 Bearing 73° · crosswind 0.1 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 65° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 43° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 66° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 61° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 27° · headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 55° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 33° · quartering headwind 0.0 mi
Elevation profile
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About this route
- Distance
- 0.6 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 16 ft
- Surface
- mixed
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- separated
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike
- Cycle network
- LCN
- Start
39.1780, -76.8568- City hub
- Columbia, MD
- OSM
- relation 9714100
Description sourced from the Wikipedia summary.