Winchester Green Circle

This portion of the trail is perhaps the longest. It begins where Boscawen Street intersects Amherst Street in downtown Winchester.  From there it continues west on Boscawen St. until it intersects Amherst Street. After turning west on Amherst St. at the intersection light, the section continues out Amherst St. to the gate for the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley on the Glen Burnie estate. Currently, existing sidewalk is available on both sides of Amherst Street from its intersection with Boscawen west to the Glen Burnie entrance.  Sidewalk extends along most of the north side of the street from the Glen Burnie entrance west to the Winchester Medical Center.  There is at least one small sidewalk break along this route between Fox Drive and Omps Drive. For now, bike riders should assume they will have to share the ride with auto traffic along this route, unless accommodations can be made with lane stripping or some other techniques.

Eventually, the trail will go inside the Glen Burnie gate and head west on Glen Burnie land until exiting at James Wood Middle School. This routing will require some sort of safe signaling at the Glen Burnie gate as well as more trail construction west of the middle school out to the CVS Pharmacy. At the CVS, trail users can either turn into the WMC and use the trail system they may construct, or continue to one of two alternate routes yet to be totally defined that will continue on the Abrams Wetlands Preserve.

It is Glen Burnie’s long term goal to have their own internal trail system which would allow GC users to experience the much larger land holdings of Glen Burnie.