 Maryland Route 260 | ||||
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| Chesapeake Beach Road | ||||
 Maryland Route 260 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by MDSHA | ||||
| Length | 8.51 mi[1] (13.70 km) | |||
| Existed | 1956–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  MD 4 at Lyons Creek | |||
| East end |  MD 261 in Chesapeake Beach | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Maryland | |||
| Counties | Calvert, Anne Arundel | |||
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Maryland Route 260 (MD 260) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Chesapeake Beach Road, the highway runs 8.51 miles (13.70 km) from MD 4 at Lyons Creek east to MD 261 in Chesapeake Beach. MD 260 connects the twin towns of Chesapeake Beach and North Beach in northern Calvert County with highways to Upper Marlboro, Washington, Annapolis, and Baltimore. Much of the highway follows part of the course of the former Chesapeake Beach Railway, which ended service in the mid-1930s. MD 260 was constructed in the early 1920s from MD 2 south of Owings east to Chesapeake Beach. The highway was extended west to what is now MD 4 south of Dunkirk in the early 1930s. MD 260 was relocated to a road built on the railroad right-of-way from Lyons Creek through Owings in the mid-1950s.