Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway is a State Scenic Byway in Maryland. Within Maryland it covers roughly 90 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
This byway winds across Maryland's upper Eastern Shore, a flat landscape of farm fields, tidal creeks, and Colonial-era towns along the Chesapeake Bay. It passes through Chestertown and Chesapeake City, with their preserved waterfronts, and crosses the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. Watermen's villages and broad bay views give the route its character.
- upper Eastern Shore
- Chestertown
- Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
- tidal creeks & farms
- Chesapeake Bay
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.