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Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail
The Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail (TCB), formerly known as Northern Central Railroad (NCR) Trail, is a rail trail that runs along a former Northern Central Railway corridor in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The trail extends 19.7 miles from Ashland Road in Cockeysville to the Mason–Dixon line, where it becomes the York County Heritage Rail Trail and continues to York, Pennsylvania.
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Today's verdict
Workable day to get the road bike out.
Best for e-bike riding 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 temp81°FPartly Cloudy
- Wind— mphNE
- Rain0%Next 24h: 0.01"
- Humidity48%
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrymixed surface
- Sunrise6:44 AM
- Sunset7:23 PM154 min remaining
Best time today
5 PM looks best — 79°F · 2 mph NE wind · partly sunny. 6 PM is a close second (61/100).
Partly Sunny
Partly Cloudy
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 tailwind.
- Leg 1 Bearing 142° · quartering tailwind 1.8 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 157° · tailwind 1.5 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 193° · tailwind 1.6 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 148° · quartering tailwind 1.7 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 128° · quartering tailwind 1.7 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 169° · tailwind 1.6 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 161° · tailwind 1.5 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 218° · quartering tailwind 1.7 mi
Elevation profile
Score breakdown
About this route
- Distance
- 19.9 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 89 ft
- Surface
- mixed
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- separated
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike
- Cycle network
- RCN · route TCB
- Operator
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources
- Start
39.7210, -76.6979- OSM
- relation 1772135
Description sourced from the Wikipedia summary.