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Western Maryland Rail Trail
The Western Maryland Rail Trail (WMRT) is a 28-mile (45 km) shared-use rail trail in the U.S. state of Maryland that follows the former right-of-way of the Western Maryland Railway (WM) between Fort Frederick State Park and Little Orleans via Hancock, paralleling the C&O Canal and Potomac River. The asphalt-paved trail is suitable for walking, jogging, biking, rollerblading, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing.
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Today's verdict
Workable day to get the road bike out.
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 temp41°FClear
- Wind12 mphNE
- Rain2%Next 24h: 0.00"
- Air qualityAQI 27PM2.5 · Good
- Humidity93%
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrymixed surface
- Sunrise7:34 AM
- Sunset6:16 PM621 min remaining
Best time today
9 AM looks best — 48°F · 1 mph N wind · sunny. 10 AM is a close second (77/100).
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Wind on this route
12 mph tailwind outbound — expect a 12 mph headwind on the return.
Currently 12 mph from the SSE (150°). Relative to this ride's overall bearing, a quartering tailwind.
- Leg 1 Bearing 320° · tailwind 2.5 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 308° · tailwind 2.5 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 294° · quartering tailwind 2.5 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 284° · quartering tailwind 2.5 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 238° · crosswind 2.2 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 221° · crosswind 1.9 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 222° · crosswind 2.4 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 252° · crosswind 1.8 mi
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About this route
- Distance
- 27.6 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 197 ft
- Surface
- mixed
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- separated
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike
- Cycle network
- LCN
- Start
39.6245, -78.0178- OSM
- relation 1393017
Description sourced from the Wikipedia summary.