Bel Pre Road/Bonifant Road
From Aspen Hill, Maryland, USA
Bel Pre Road / Bonifant Road is an east-west thoroughfare not intended for the amount of traffic that it carries.
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Route
Bel Pre Road runs from its western terminus at Norbeck Road (MD-28) eastward as the northern boundary of Aspen Hill. It crosses over the buried Sycamore Creek just east of the intersection with Arctic Avenue, and then ascends gently to its intersection with Georgia Avenue (MD-97). It continues eastward, crossing one of the eastern tributaries of the Branch of Rock Creek, past its intersection with Connecticut Avenue, crossing over a ridge and then descending to cross Bel Pre Creek, and then climbing to the intersection with Layhill Road. To the east of Layhill Road, it is known as Bonifant Road.
Circuit Route Component
Bel Pre Road / Bonifant Road is a component of several Circuit Routes.
Road Type
Bel Pre Road / Bonifant Road is a Snow Emergency Route.
Throughout most of its western third, Bel Pre Road is a residential street with two traffic lanes and two parking lanes. Between Georgia Avenue and Layhill Road, Bel Pre Road is five-lane line-divided, also known as four-lane with "suicide left lanes". From just east of Layhill Road, Bonifant Road is gravel-shouldered two lane, though in some places it is three-lane line-divided, also known as "two lane with a suicide left lane". There is no on-street parking east of Georgia Avenue.
Geography
Montgomery County is characterized by a large number of streams and stream-valleys, most of which are aligned north to south. Consequently, any east-west road is likely to be extremely hilly. Bel Pre Road west of Georgia Avenue is not particularly hilly. Bonifant Road east of Layhill Road has a rather tight switchback curve descending to the crossing of the Northwest Branch, but other than that is not particularly hilly.
