MD · on road · mixed
Southern Maryland Potomac Heritage Trail On-Road Bicycling Route
48.2-mile mixed route with 161 ft of elevation gain, route reference “PHT”, routed on public roads.
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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
77 /100
great
77 Road
76 E-bike
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
- Wind6 mphNE
- Rain2%Next 24h: 0.00"
- Air qualityAQI 11O3 · Good
- Humidity96%
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrymixed surface
- Sunrise7:28 AM
- Sunset6:14 PM618 min remaining
Best time today
8 AM looks best — 49°F · 5 mph N wind · sunny. 9 AM is a close second (77/100).
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5 mph N
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3 mph NE
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Wind on this route
Light crosswind (6 mph).
Currently 6 mph from the NE (45°). Relative to this ride's overall bearing, a crosswind.
- Leg 1 Bearing 305° · crosswind 2.1 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 3° · quartering headwind 2.6 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 261° · quartering tailwind 2.1 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 236° · tailwind 2.6 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 279° · quartering tailwind 2.6 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 214° · tailwind 1.7 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 227° · tailwind 2.7 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 139° · crosswind 2.1 mi
Elevation profile
Score breakdown
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48°F air Right in road cycling's sweet spot
+10 +
Pavement: dry Clean dry pavement — maximum grip.
+4 +
AQI 11 Clean air
+3 About this route
- Distance
- 48.2 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 161 ft
- Surface
- mixed
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- on road
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike
- Start
38.4526, -76.9907- OSM
- relation 18345436
Description sourced from OpenStreetMap relation tags and member-way geometry.