U.S. Route 40 Alternate (Keysers Ridge–Cumberland, Maryland)
Alt US 40 is a former segment of U.S. Route 40 through Garrett and Allegany counties in Maryland. The highway is known as National Pike because it follows the original alignment of the historic National Road. It runs 31. 80 miles eastward to Cumberland, where it ends at exit 44 on I-68.
About U.S. Route 40 Alternate (Keysers Ridge–Cumberland, Maryland) in brief
Alt US 40 is a former segment of U.S. Route 40 through Garrett and Allegany counties in Maryland. The highway is known as National Pike because it follows the original alignment of the historic National Road. It runs 31. 80 miles eastward to Cumberland, where it ends at exit 44 on I-68. There are many historic sites along the highway, including the Casselman Bridge in Grantsville and the last remaining National Road toll gate house in Maryland, located in LaVale. It is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial from the eastern junction with MD 36 in Frostburg to the intersection of Mechanic Street and Henderson Avenue in Cumberland. The annual average daily traffic —that is, the number of cars that use the road per day, averaged over the course of one year—is 1,831 at the western end of Alt US 40. The route runs perpendicular to the mountain ridges in Garrett County, and as a result much of the section of the road in Garrett county runs uphill or downhill. It passes over Negro Mountain at an elevation of 3,075 feet, which is the highest point on Alt US-40, and was also the high point along the National Road in the early 1930s. It also passes under MD 546, which runs north to the Pennsylvania border from US-68-68, through I-232, Finzel and Finzel, and also by way of MD F546, MD 46, and MD 946, which intersects US 46 near the top of Little Savage Mountain.
Alt US 40 descends Savage Mountain into Frostburg where it passes through the town of Frostburg as Main Street. It then descends Big Savage Mountain, the larger of the two, before continuing into Allegansy County. It ends at the exit of US 219 a short distance north of exit 22 on I 68, where US 219 leaves the freeway. East of this intersection, traffic decreases, with an AADT of 1,681, the lowest traffic density along the entire route. It does not directly intersect with MD 669, which connects with Pennsylvania Route 669 toward Salisbury, Pennsylvania. A short distance east of this intersect, the highway meets MD 495, which junctions with I- 68 and continues southward toward Oakland. It continues through northern Garrett County as a two-lane road with truck lanes on some uphill sections. The road passes over the Casselman River on a steel bridge built in 1933. Downstream from this bridge is the Casselsman River Bridge State Park, centered on the stone arch bridge which originally carried the National road over the Cassellman River. The first mountain encountered by the highway east of Keyser’s Ridge is Negro Mountain, which is also the highestpoint on the highway on AltUS40. The highway passes over Meadow Mountain at a height of 2,789 feet. In eastern Garrett County,. traffic on the route gradually increases to 2,232, in eastern Garrett County.
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