Sometimes roads just don’t connect like you think they would or should. This series of caches takes you to spots where two roads look like they should connect but they do not. Maybe a home owners’ association is trying to keep traffic down or an urban planner didn’t plan quite well enough.
This location used to be a road. More specifically, it used to be the west side of a bridge over the Patuxent River. The 9th Street Bridge, connecting the Laurel mills to residents (i.e. employees) across the river, was lost in 1899 to flooding. The bridge was rebuilt and then destroyed again in 1972 by Hurricane Agnes. By then, the C. Philip Nicholas Bridge from Route 216 to 7th Street had become the main thoroughfare, so the 9th Street Bridge was not rebuilt. An abandoned road still leads to a nice overlook of the river and a bit of Laurel. Enjoy the view and the find