The 3rd of 4 lines that cross inside the Beltway in Prince George's County, the line between Forest Heights and Brandywine ends about 2000 feet from the DC boundary and a little more than a football field away from the Oxon Hill Farm Trail in Oxon Hill National Park.
I recall when the Wilson Bridge Trail opened, I was told that the original plan for connecting the Wilson Bridge to DC was to use the power line ROW from the OHF trail to the Bald Eagle Road Bridge over the Beltway, but that it had run into opposition. It's still the best option. A small connection (purple) from the trail to the end of the ROW would connect the two as well as the Forest Heights neighborhood at Seneca Drive.
Getting through the interchange would be extremely difficult, but skipping over that, a separate trail could be built on the ROW from Carson Park in Oxon Hill to Cherry Tree Crossing Road in the Cheltenham area of Brandywine. In fact a section south of Piscataway Road already has a trail, the Green Trail, on it as part of the Cosca Regional Park trail system.
Along the way, such a trail would intersect with the Henson Creek Trail at Tucker Road, and with other power line ROWs elsewhere at Tucker Road, at Burches Hill and then on the east terminus. Those ROWs could connect to Capital Heights, the Nice Bridge, White Plains and all the way to Germantown in Montgomery County and Dunn Loring, VA.
There would be some tough crossings for this trail - especially at Branch Avenue and Crain Highway - but altogether the ROW could be used to create a relatively painless pair of trails about 14 miles long.
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