Columbia, MD · separated · mixed
Patuxent Branch Trail
The Patuxent Branch Trail is a 10.4-mile (16.7 km) trail in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It mostly runs along the path of the Patuxent River, just south of Maryland Route 32.
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Today's verdict
Marginal conditions — get the road bike out if you have to.
- 37 mph wind — gusty and hazardous on exposed bridges and overpasses.
- 55°F air — right in road cycling's sweet spot
Best for e-bike riding 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 temp55°FCloudy
- Wind37 mphNW
- Rain1%Next 24h: 0.00"
- Air qualityAQI 33PM2.5 · Good
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrymixed surface
- Sunrise6:41 AM
- Sunset5:00 PM804 min remaining
Best time today
1 PM looks best — 57°F · 13 mph W wind · mostly sunny. 9 AM is a close second (75/100).
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Wind on this route
37 mph tailwind outbound — expect a 37 mph quartering headwind on the return.
Currently 37 mph from the WNW (300°). Relative to this ride's overall bearing, a quartering tailwind.
- Leg 1 Bearing 73° · quartering tailwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 65° · quartering tailwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 43° · crosswind 0.1 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 66° · quartering tailwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 61° · quartering tailwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 27° · crosswind 0.1 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 55° · quartering tailwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 33° · crosswind 0.0 mi
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About this route
- Distance
- 0.6 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 16 ft
- Surface
- mixed
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- separated
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike
- Cycle network
- LCN
- Start
39.1780, -76.8568- City hub
- Columbia, MD
- OSM
- relation 9714100
Description sourced from the Wikipedia summary.