Venues

Venues & Address Details

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University of Maryland (Sprint)

The University of Maryland is a typical large college campus consisting of buildings, sidewalks, roads, parking areas, and open grass areas. Indoor bathroom facilities will be available (reminder: no metal spikes are allowed anywhere on this campus!)

Venue Parking: University of Maryland, Parking Lot 11B.  Paint Branch Dr, College Park, MD.  Coordinates: 38.993398, -76.937152 (click here for Google Map Link)

For both Sat/BSU/Middle and Sun/Bacon Ridge/Long events:

Bathroom information:  Porta johns will be located at the parking/registration areaa and at the shuttle drop-off points.  Indoor bathrooms will be available at the registration areas.

Clothing return: Since start/finishes are near each other both days there is no clothing return. There will be a place to leave clothing for later retrieval.

BSU (Middle)

Low lying technically complex wooded terrain between Bowie State University and the Patuxent River. The area is flat with little major contour relief. There are some intricate marshy/stream/wet areas, and a few intricate small hill/depression areas. There are a fair number of trails and extensive vegetation in parts of the map, so route choice will be a major factor in some courses. 

Parking for Model: Horsepen Branch Park, 8609 Race Track Rd, Bowie MD.   Coordinates: 39.009812, -76.745973 (google map link)

Parking for Middle: Bowie State University Loop Road, Bowie MD. Coordinates: 39.022904, -76.758649 (google map link)

Bacon Ridge Natural Area (Long)

Bacon Ridge is a long main stream valley with numerous side streams. Stream valleys can be marshy. Unique feature are the mostly flat plateaus with steep hillsides down to the stream valley. Plateaus are circular, covering 270-degree arcs, with numerous reentrants. Extensive curvy hiking/mountain bike trails wind all around the plateaus. The woods tend to be very open on the plateaus, with some greener areas in the valley areas.  

Parking for Model: Generals Highway Corridor Park, 1758 Crownsville Road. Crownsville, MD.  Coordinates: 39.003011, -76.593949. (google map link)

Parking for Long: Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds, Crownsville Road, Crownsville MD. Coordinates: 39.021250, -76.596887. (google map link)