Falls Road
Falls Road is a State Scenic Byway in Maryland. Within Maryland it covers roughly 35 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Falls Road with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
Falls Road, Maryland Route 25, follows the Jones Falls valley for 39 miles from the small community of Alesia in northern Baltimore County south into Baltimore City. The drive starts near the Prettyboy Reservoir and passes through woodland and rolling farmland before reaching Gunpowder Falls State Park, where a blue-ribbon trout stream runs below the Prettyboy Dam. Along the way, the byway provides access to the Oregon Ridge Nature Center, the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail — a 20-mile flat path along the Big Gunpowder Falls popular with hikers and cyclists — and Mount Washington, a village of tree-lined streets, boutiques, and cafes near Baltimore's northern edge. Cylburn Arboretum, with its gardens and outdoor sculpture, sits near the byway's southern end. The route makes a clean transition from quiet countryside to city, tracing the same stream corridor the whole way.
- 39 miles on MD Route 25 (Falls Road)
- Alesia to Baltimore City, Jones Falls valley
- Prettyboy Reservoir & Dam
- Gunpowder Falls State Park
- Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail (20 miles)
- Mount Washington village & Cylburn Arboretum
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.