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Maryland Route 497

{{short description|State highway in Maryland, United States}}

{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox road

|state=MD

|type=MD

|route=497

|alternate_name=Cove Point Road

|map={{maplink-road}}

|map_custom=yes

|map_notes=Maryland Route 497 highlighted in red

|length_mi=2.68

|length_round=2

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|established=1933

|direction_a=West

|terminus_a={{jct|state=MD|MD|2|MD|4}} in Lusby

|junction={{jct|state=MD|MD|765}} in Lusby

|direction_b=East

|terminus_b=Lighthouse Boulevard in Cove Point

|counties=Calvert

|previous_type=MD

|previous_route=496

|next_type=MD

|next_route=500

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Maryland Route 497 (MD 497) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Cove Point Road, the state highway runs {{convert|2.68|mi|km}} from MD 2/MD 4 in Lusby east to the community of Cove Point. MD 497 was constructed in the early 1930s.

Route description

File:2016-07-20 11 31 58 View west from the east end of Maryland State Route 497 (Cove Point Road) near Park Drive in Cove Point, Maryland.jpg

MD 497 begins at an intersection with MD 2/MD 4, which run concurrently as Solomons Island Road, in Lusby. The state highway heads east as a two-lane undivided road and intersects the old alignment of MD 2, MD 765 (H.G. Trueman Road). A park and ride lot is located on the southwest corner of this intersection. MD 497 continues east along Cove Point Park before intersecting Little Cove Point Road, which leads to the Chesapeake Ranch Estates community and the Chesapeake Ranch Airstrip. The state highway passes by the entrance to the Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal and through a forested area before reaching its eastern terminus at the entrance to the Cove Point community. The roadway continues as county-maintained Lighthouse Boulevard to the Cove Point Light.

History

MD 497 was constructed as a gravel road from MD 2 (now MD 765) to its eastern terminus by 1933. The state highway was extended west to MD 2/MD 4 when the two highways were relocated from MD 765 to a new divided highway to the west around 1987.

Junction list

{{jcttop|length_ref=|state=MD|county=Calvert}}

{{MDint

|location=Lusby

|lspan=2

|mile=0.00

|road={{jct|state=MD|MD|2|MD|4|name2=Solomons Island Road|city1=Prince Frederick|city2=Solomons}}

|notes=Western terminus

}}

{{MDint

|mile=0.25

|road={{jct|state=MD|MD|765|name1=H.G. Trueman Road}}

|notes=Officially MD 765Q

}}

{{MDint

|location=Cove Point

|mile=2.68

|road={{jct|state=MD|road|Lighthouse Boulevard east|location1=Cove Point Light}}

|notes=Eastern terminus

}}

{{jctbtm}}

See also

  • {{Portal-inline|Maryland Roads}}

References

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{{Maryland HLR|year=2013|county1=Calvert|accessdate=2011-02-18}}

{{google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Cove+Point+Rd&daddr=Lighthouse+Blvd&hl=en&geocode=FdLDSQIdwq1x-w%3BFTWdSQIdtFpy-w&mra=ls&sll=38.378714,-76.391847&sspn=0.00095,0.002411&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14|title=Maryland Route 497|accessdate=2011-02-18}}

{{Maryland road map|year=1933}}

{{Maryland road map|year=1987}}

}}

External links

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  • [http://www.mdroads.com/routes/480-499.html#md497 MDRoads: MD 497]
  • [https://www.alpsroads.net/roads/md/md_497/ Maryland Roads - MD 497]

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Maryland Route 497