Scenic byways in Maryland

Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway

All-American Road 84 mi in Maryland.

Find camping along it Drive to one end Byway page on America's Byways

About the Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway

The Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway offers an epic journey through an unspoiled landscape that has shaped the lifestyles and livelihoods of generations of Watermen, shipbuilders, and farmers. This largely unchanged landscape makes it easy for visitors to imagine earlier times when goods were shipped to Baltimore in wooden barrels aboard schooners. The byway acts as a destination unto itself— it is the best way to travel through the extraordinary landscapes and waterscapes of the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The byway experience stretches from its upper Eastern Shore terminus – the picturesque Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to its lower shore recreational terminus at Smith Island.

Federal Highway Administration, America's Byways's own description, in its words. Byway page on America's Byways.

Designations: National Scenic Byway, Maryland State Scenic Byway.

Camping along the byway

No public campground this site holds lies within 5 miles of the road.

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About this page's facts

The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.