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Sligo Creek Parkway is a two-lane at-grade automobile parkway in Montgomery County in the U.S. state of Maryland.The two-lane parkway runs 5.6 mi (9.0 km) from Maryland Route 650 (MD 650) in Takoma Park through Silver Spring north to MD 193 in Maryland.
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city [3] with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, [4] making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf.
Red Line service at Silver Spring began on February 6, 1978. Prior to the opening of Forest Glen on September 22, 1990, Silver Spring was the northeastern terminus of the Red Line. MARC trains began service in this location in 2003, replacing the Silver Spring Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, located about .25 miles (0.40 km) to the south.
Located in the Silver Spring CDP, Lyttonsville is bordered by East-West Highway (Maryland Route 410) to the south, beyond which is the neighborhood of Rock Creek Forest and, further south, Washington, D.C. Rock Creek Park and Chevy Chase are located to the west, Forest Glen Park to the north, and Woodside and Downtown Silver Spring to the east.
The Forest Glen Annex is a 136-acre (0.55 km 2) U.S. Army installation in the Forest Glen Park neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. It is situated between Brookville Road and Linden Lane.
[1] [4] Its opening coincided with the completion of 3.2 miles (5.1 km) of rail north of the Silver Spring station and the opening of Wheaton. [1] [4] [5] Providing service for the Red Line, the station is located at Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97) and Forest Glen Road.
Woodside Park is located just north of downtown of Silver Spring, one of the oldest suburbs of Washington, DC.Its boundaries are Georgia Avenue (State Route 97) on the west, Spring Street to the South, Colesville Road (US Route 29) to the east, and Dale Drive and Columbia Boulevard on the north.
MD 410 continues east on three-lane Burlington Avenue (two lanes westbound and one lane eastbound) and crosses over the rail and Metro lines. At Fenton Street, the highway veers southeast onto two-lane Philadelphia Avenue, where it enters the city of Takoma Park as it passes by the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus of Montgomery College. [1] [3]