Maryland Route 500

Maryland Route 500
Queens Chapel Road
Route information
Maintained by MDSHA
Length	2.22 mi[1] (3.57 km)
Existed	1933–present
Major junctions
South end	Michigan Avenue at the District of Columbia boundary in Avondale
Major intersections	MD 501 in Mount Rainier MD 208 in Hyattsville
North end	MD 410 in Hyattsville
Location
Country	United States
State	Maryland
Counties	Prince George's
Highway system
Maryland highway system Interstate US State Scenic Byways
← MD 497 → MD 501

Maryland Route 500 (MD 500) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The highway starts at the District of Columbia boundary at Avondale. It is a continuation of Washington D.C.'s Michigan Avenue. As Queens Chapel Road, MD 500 continues north for 2.22 miles (3.57 km) to MD 410 (East-West Highway) in Hyattsville.

MD 500 connects Washington with the Prince George's County cities of Mount Rainier and Hyattsville. The state highway also proximately connects those communities with a pair of subway stations (West Hyattsville and Hyattsville Crossing) on the Green Line of the Washington Metro.

Queens Chapel Road was originally constructed as MD 210 from Washington to Hyattsville in the 1910s. In the early 1930s, MD 500 was built from Hyattsville through University Park to U.S. Route 1 (US 1). MD 500 assumed the course of MD 210 in the mid-1940s. In the early 1950s, the highway was relocated in West Hyattsville and expanded to a divided highway between West Hyattsville and the Washington boundary line. It was later expanded again between West Hyattsville and University Park.

In the late 1980s, MD 500 was truncated at MD 410 when University Park took over the highway prior to the construction of the Metro Green Line underneath the town. The portion of Queens Chapel Road that ran through University Park became a local neighborhood road.