Rockville, MD · on road · paved
Shady Grove Road
1.2-mile paved route with 26 ft of elevation gain, signed as part of the regional cycle network, routed on public roads.
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Today's verdict
Workable day to get the road bike out.
- 63°F air — right in road cycling's sweet spot
Best for bike-share touring 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 temp63°FClear
- Wind12 mphSW
- Rain1%Next 24h: 0.00"
- Humidity100%
Surface & daylight
- Pavementdrypaved surface
- Sunrise6:44 AM
- Sunset7:27 PM741 min remaining
Best time today
8 AM looks best — 66°F · 5 mph S wind · mostly sunny. 9 AM is a close second (74/100).
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Wind on this route
12 mph headwind outbound — expect a 12 mph quartering headwind on the return.
Currently 12 mph from the SSE (150°). Relative to this ride's overall bearing, a quartering headwind.
- Leg 1 Bearing 223° · crosswind 0.1 mi
- Leg 2 Bearing 214° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 3 Bearing 201° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 4 Bearing 199° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 5 Bearing 199° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 6 Bearing 198° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 7 Bearing 206° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
- Leg 8 Bearing 214° · quartering headwind 0.1 mi
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About this route
- Distance
- 1.2 mi one-way (double for round-trip)
- Elevation gain
- 26 ft
- Surface
- paved
- Shape
- Out-and-back
- Traffic exposure
- on road
- Activities
- road cycling · e bike · commuting · bike share-touring
- Cycle network
- RCN
- Start
39.1488, -77.1470- City hub
- Rockville, MD
- OSM
- relation 17047037
Description sourced from OpenStreetMap relation tags and member-way geometry.