Route Description
See also: Maryland Route 355 and Wisconsin AvenueU.S. 240 began at a junction with U.S. 40 (since diverted to Interstate 70) and ran southeast to Washington, D.C., terminating at U.S. 50 near the Lincoln Memorial. The highway ran through Gaithersburg, Rockville and Bethesda as it approached the D.C. border.
It took a route very close to a northwest-southeast path as a spur of its long-distance nominal parent route U.S. 40, which leads eastward (and still exists) to Baltimore.
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