@gswim18 84474 wrote:
I ride from Bethesda to GU every day on the trail I have been jumping off at the Washington Aqueduct connector that take you up to Norton and then riding to campus on MacArthur/Reservoir. The traffic is not as bad as I thought it would be, might actually stick with this route when the trail opens again (shorter and less climbing).
I highly recommend this route. Since the speed limit on MacArthur is rigorously enforced, traffic isn’t bad and it’s nice and flat (except for that short stretch coming from M St. on Canal to MacArthur on the trip out to Bethesda).
BTW – Coming from the DC side it looks like Norton is a dead end but there is a short unpaved connector to the CCT there.