page_title: Maryland Route 225
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Maryland Route 225 / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: View west along Maryland State Route 225 (Hawthorne Road) at Maryland State Route 224 (Livingston Road) in Potomac Heights, Charles County, Maryland
context_page_description: Maryland Route 225 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Hawthorne Road, the state highway runs 10.59 miles from MD 210 in Potomac Heights east to U.S. Route 301 in La Plata. MD 225 connects La Plata, the county seat of Charles County, with Indian Head in the northwestern part of the county, which is home to Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center. The state highway was designated one of the original state roads by the Maryland State Roads Commission and constructed in the mid 1910s. MD 225 was reconstructed in the early 1950s, shortly after the highway's western terminus was moved to Potomac Heights following the completion of Indian Head Highway during World War II.
context_section_description: MD 225 begins at an intersection with MD 210 (Indian Head Highway) in Potomac Heights.  The state highway heads south as a two-lane undivided road, descending into the forested bottomlands of Mattawoman Creek, where the highway intersects the Indian Head Rail Trail and intersects MD 224 (Livingston Road).  The two highways join in a concurrency to cross the creek into the hamlet of Mason Springs, where MD 224 diverges to the west toward Marbury and MD 225 passes the historic home Araby.  MD 225 heads southeast along the southern edge of Myrtle Grove Wildlife Management Area to the community of Ripley, where the highway curves east.  At the hamlet of Marshalls Corner, the state highway intersects Marshall Corner Road, which heads north to Pomfret, and Rose Hill Road, which provides access to Thomas Stone National Historic Site.  MD 225 passes the historic home Locust Grove before intersecting Valley Road and Mitchell Road at the corner of the Hawthorne Country Club.  Valley Road heads north toward a trio of historic homes—Linden, Mount Carmel Monastery, and Thainston— and the La Plata campus of the College of Southern Maryland.  MD 225 enters the town of La Plata, passing through a residential area before heading south of a park and ride lot and reaching its eastern terminus at US 301 (Robert Crain Highway).  The roadway continues east as Hawthorne Drive, the old alignment of MD 225, east to Washington Avenue, the old alignment of US 301.
  MD 225 is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial from Quailwood Parkway just west of the town of La Plata east to US 301 in La Plata.
caption: View west along MD 225 at MD 224 in Mason Springs
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