At a little more than 6 miles, this is one of the shorter utility corridors. It already has a 1 mile long trail on part of it and Montgomery County calls it "Utility Corridor #3" in the new bike plan and plans to build another 1.5 miles of trail on it. Unfortunately they won't connect the two.
On the north end the trail starts at a T-junction with a corridor that runs from Germantown to the Nice Bridge (#8 on this list), but until, and only if, a trail is on that corridor the natural stopping point would be Mt. Zion Park just south of that corridor. Building a trail from that park to the north end of MoCo's planned trail at Bowie Mill doesn't seem like it would be difficult. It only crosses a few roads and doesn't seem to interfere with any other land use, while connecting into a few subdivisions along the way.
MoCo's planned trail would run from Bowie Mill to Cherry Valley Drive, so that is actually something that could happen. Along the way it connects to Utility Corridor #4 where a trail exists that MoCo wants to expand.
From there it's only about 4000 feet to Emory Lane where a sidepath that Google Maps calls the "Georgia Avenue Trail", but is really just part of the ICC Trail, can be found.
The trail here isn't much - it's a little narrow - but it follows the power lines to Georgia Avenue and then south to the ICC Park and Ride. From there the "Georgia Avenue Trail" continues as a buffered and flexpost delinated bike lane along the west side of the access road to Thistlebridge, a short sidepath south of then and then ends, just north of Norbeck Road. At Norbeck Road the power lines continue but the corridor basically ends.
From Norbeck, the MoCo Bike plan calls for a separated bikeway to the Matthew Henson Trail.
This is a short trail opportunity that would extend a trail MoCo is already investing in and connect to another one they already did, in an area where lots of other facilities are planned.
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