Starting at the Addison Road Metro Station and heading south into down to Charles County to the east side of La Plata, this 42 mile corridor connects to both the Henson Creek Trail and the Indian Head Rail Trail.
Inside the Beltway
Inside the Beltway, the corridor is mostly open with just a few parking lots built on it, but there more than a few big roads to cross: Walter Mill Road, Marlboro Pike, Pennsylvania Avenue, Suitland Road, the Suitland Parkway and Branch Avenue. There's also Henson Creek to get across. Along the way, the corridor passes through Walker Mill, District Heights, Suitland and Marlow Heights and within a few hundred feet of the Branch Avenue Metro. A trail on this part of the corridor would be easy to build and fill a void in an under-served area.
Outside the Beltway
Getting over the Beltway might require a unique crossing as there aren't really any good ones nearby. But once over, it's a short distance along Henson Creek to the Henson Creek Trail. Then the corridor goes across Oxon Hill where it intersects with a corridor between Forest Heights and Brandywine (#2 on this list). Past that, it gets a little difficult as it passes over back yards until it's south of Airport Drive near Rose Valley Elementary School, but it could go on road. It then passes through Tinker's Creek and Piscataway Stream Valley Parks into White Hall. There it begins a long run parallel to, but about 2000 feet east of, Indian Head Highway all the way to Charles County. It's a little built up in this section, but not impassable for a trail.
Charles County
After passing through the Accokeek area into Charles County the corridor cuts through forest all the way to the Indian Head Rail Trail with just Livinston Road in the way. From there it runs east, around the south and east sides of La Plata where it ends at the corridor between Germantown and the Middleton Bridge (#8).
This corridor touches on at least four valuable connections (Addison Road and Branch Avenue Metro stations, and Henson Creek and Indian Head Rail Trails) and any or all of them work as a starting point for building a trail on this corridor. The 3 miles from Henson Creek to Branch Avenue - especially with a bridge over the Beltway - would be first on my list.
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