Silver Spring, MD · on road · paved
Powder Mill Rd
2.5-mile paved route with 121 ft of elevation gain, signed as part of the local cycle network, routed on public roads.
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Today's verdict
Great day to get the road bike out.
- 70°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 temp70°FSunny
- Wind— mphNW
- Rain0%Next 24h: 0.00"
- Humidity100%
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrypaved surface
- Sunrise5:41 AM
- Sunset8:33 PM746 min remaining
Best time today
9 AM looks best — 74°F · 6 mph N wind · sunny. 10 AM is a close second (61/100).
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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 86° · crosswind 0.2 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 98° · crosswind 0.2 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 101° · crosswind 0.2 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 97° · crosswind 0.2 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 80° · crosswind 0.2 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 62° · quartering headwind 0.2 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 55° · quartering headwind 0.2 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 46° · quartering headwind 0.2 mi
Elevation profile
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About this route
- Distance
- 2.5 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 121 ft
- Surface
- paved
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- on road
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike · commuting · bike share-touring
- Cycle network
- LCN
- Start
39.0336, -76.8497- City hub
- Silver Spring, MD
- OSM
- relation 7178267
Description sourced from OpenStreetMap relation tags and member-way geometry.