I-95/495 North - Summerfield to College Park

A diamond interchange (Exit 16) joins I-95/495 with Arena Drive in one mile.

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These shields for I-95/495 stand next to the site where the Capital Centre was located. The one time home of Washington Bullets basketball and Washington Capitals hockey closed in 1999 and was demolished in 2002. The Boulevard at the Capital Centre retail complex was built in place of the former arena in 2003.

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Arena Drive derived its name from the former Capital Centre. The minor arterial leads east to MD 202 (Landover Road) and west as Bishop Peebles Drive to FedEx Field, home of the Washington Football Team NFL franchise. Exit 16 previously was open to traffic only during sporting events or concerts.

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Widening of I-95/495 north at MD 202 in 2008-09 added a collector distributor roadway and removed the loop ramp (Exit 17B) for Landover Road west.

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MD 202 (Landover Road) measures 13.92 miles in length from MD 725 by the town of Upper Marlboro to MD 450 in Bladensburg.

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A painted median separates the two lane c/d roadway from the three lane freeway mainline through the six-ramp parclo interchange (Exit 17) with MD 202 (Landover Road).

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MD 202 (Landover Road) leads southeast to Largo and Oak Grove and west to Kent Village and Landover.

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Continuing north between Glenarden and Ardmore, I-95/495 next meet U.S. 50 and unsigned Interstate 595 at Exits 19A/B.

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New Carrollton Station serves the Metro Orange and Silver Line subways into Washington, AMTRAK service and Greyhound bus service. The transit facility lies nearby on the north side of U.S. 50 west. I-595/U.S. 50 combine for 6.3 miles east to MD 197 in the city of Bowie.

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U.S. 50 (John Hanson Highway) travels east from Washington, DC to Annapolis, Easton and Ocean City. I-595 overlaps U.S. 50 between I-95/495 and MD 70. I-595 was to be cosigned with U.S. 50 in 1995, but that plan was scrapped due to established familiarity with the corridor as U.S. 50 and the potential for motorist confusion.

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I-595 was officially included in the Interstate Highway System in 1989, midway during a series of upgrades along U.S. 50 between the Capital Beltway and MD 70. Work started along John Hanson Highway in the mid 80s included the upgrade of Exit 19 from a cloverleaf interchange into a turbine style exchange.

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A loop ramp (Exit 19B) follows for U.S. 50 (John Hanson Highway) west to Landover, Cheverly and New York Avenue through Northeast Washington. The freeway along U.S. 50 west into D.C. is not a part of the Interstate Highway System.

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The subsequent exit along northbound I-95/495 is with MD 450 (Annapolis Road) for Lanham. MD 450 is the former routing of U.S. 50 before the John Hanson Highway was completed, from 1953 to 1961.²

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MD 450 covers the old alignment of U.S. 50 from the District of Columbia boundary east to an interchange with U.S. 50 near Annapolis. MD 450 follows Annapolis Road between Washington and MD 3 in Bowie, and Defense Highway east from Bowie.

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Entering the parclo interchange with MD 450 (Annapolis Road) on I-95/495 north. Exit 20A departs first for MD 450 east to Lanham.

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The Capital Beltway continues with four through lanes as Exit 20B loops away onto MD 450 (Annapolis Road) west to Woodlawn and Bladensburg.

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This distance sign provides the distance to Baltimore-Washington Parkway (Exits 22A/B), the separation of I-95 and I-495 and the outer loop of I-495 to Interstate 270 west to Frederick (Exit 35).

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Three of the next four exits along the Capital Beltway outer loop connect with routes north to Baltimore. Baltimore-Washington Parkway, U.S. 1 and I-95 parallel one another northeast to Laurel and southwest Baltimore.

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The next exit along I-95/495 north is the cloverleaf interchange (Exits 22A/B) with Baltimore-Washington Parkway. A limited access highway, the parkway prohibits trucks on the section maintained by the National Park Service south to U.S. 50 and Kenilworth Avenue and north to MD 175.

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The state maintained portion of Baltimore-Washington Parkway north of Jessup is designated as MD 295. The NPS section is unnumbered, while the parkway south of U.S. 50 is MD 201 (Kenilworth Avenue) and D.C. 295 in Washington.

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Baltimore-Washington Parkway provides a direct route to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) via I-195 south, 18 miles to the northeast.

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Exit 22A leaves I-95/495 north to east Laurel, Fort Meade and Baltimore. Parallel MD 201 (Kenilworth Avenue) extends north from Bladensburg to meet the beltway at the succeeding exit.

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Exit 22A includes access to adjacent MD 193 (Greenbelt Road). MD 193 travels east from Greenbelt to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Glenn Dale.

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Baltimore-Washington Parkway south runs between Bladensburg and Cheverly and transitions to Kenilworth Avenue into northeastern Washington. The Anacostia Freeway continues the route as D.C. 295 south to I-395 (Southeast Freeway) and I-295 at the 11th Street Bridge.

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A six-ramp parclo interchange (Exit 23) joins I-95/495 with MD 201 (Kenilworth Avenue) in the city of Greenbelt.

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MD 201 stretches 9.40 miles from the D.C. line and Baltimore Parkway north to MD 212 in Beltsville.

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A wye interchange adds traffic from the Greenbelt transit station to I-95/495 two miles ahead of their split. A diagrammatic sign replaced separate panels here for U.S. 1 (Exit 25) and the departure of I-95 from the beltway by 2007.

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Exit 25 departs next for U.S. 1 (Baltimore Avenue) at the city of College Park.
The panel for I-95 north here was replaced by 2007 to reference traveler services for Exit 25, while the U.S. 1 overhead was carbon copied to use Clearview font in 2016.

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U.S. 1 (Baltimore Avenue) travels north from College Park to Beltsville and Laurel. The cloverleaf interchange with I-95/495 formerly included a loop ramp from the outer loop to Baltimore Avenue south. U.S. 1 and I-95 will cross paths again in Baltimore, but not meet each other directly until Newark, New Jersey.

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Advancing west from U.S. 1, the Capital Beltway expands to six lanes along the outer loop ahead of I-95/495 split. I-95 turns north with three lanes to Landover and Baltimore, while I-495 maintains four westbound lanes to Silver Spring and Bethesda.
This diagrammatic sign was replaced by 2007 to show Beltway below I-495 west.

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Crossing over Little Paint Branch, three quarters of a mile ahead of the directional cloverleaf interchange with the departing Interstate 95.
Separate panels direct motorists to I-495 west and I-95 north at this location as of 2007.

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The upcoming exchange between I-495 and I-95 was originally going to include connections with the continuation of I-95 south into the District of Columbia, to the north end of I-195 (Center Leg Freeway) at New York Avenue. Although I-95 was never completed as planned, the interchange with the Capital Beltway was designed with ramps for the unconstructed freeway. These were later repurposed to serve a park and ride lot and truck weigh station located at the stub end.

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Traffic separates for Interstate 95 north to Baltimore, Wilmington and Philadelphia and I-495 west to I-270 for Rockville and Gaithersburg and I-66 west to Fairfax.
Overheads pictured here were replaced by 2007.

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Once on the transition ramp from the Capital Beltway, Interstate 95 north partitions with a left side ramp for the park and ride located at the south end of the I-95 freeway. A similar park and ride parking area is located at the eastern end of Interstate 70 in Baltimore.

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