Potomac Heritage Trail & Riverbend Road Trail is a 3.3-mile out-and-back in Riverbend Park near Great Falls, MD. It climbs 312 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 26/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
Elevation
0 mi151 – 322 ft · steepest grade: 19%3.5 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Madison's Escape Trail 39.01810, -77.24616
Nearest town Great Falls, MD
Directions
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Potomac Heritage Trail & Riverbend Road Trail
3.3 mi · ▲ 312 ft · 1 hr 15 min
Elevation 151–322 ft
Out & Back · Riverbend Park
Trailhead: Madison's Escape Trail · 39.01810, -77.24616
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:56 AM · sunset 7:11 PM
Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading S.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Potomac Heritage Trail, heading SW.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 300 ftSharp left, heading NW.
- 350 ftSharp right onto Bootlegger Trail, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn left onto Bliss Road, heading NW.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Riverbend Road Trail, heading S.
- 0.4 miReach Potomac Heritage Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.4 miTurn left onto Bliss Road, heading N.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Bootlegger Trail, heading N.
- 0.1 miSharp left, heading E.
- 350 ftSharp right, heading SE.
- 350 ftTurn left onto Potomac Heritage Trail, heading N.
- 0.8 miArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
Trail surface
98% dirt2% paved
Weather
Sunrise 6:56 AMSunset 7:11 PM
Good to know
- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from Madison's Escape Trail Trailhead
- Black Pond–Carper's Pond, 4 sights 11.7 mi · ▲ 447 ft
- Patowmack Island–Carper's Pond, 4 sights 10.4 mi · ▲ 301 ft
- Carper's Pond & Potomac Heritage Trail 2.1 mi · ▲ 112 ft
- Potomac Heritage Viewpoint & Follow the Hollows Trail via Potomac Heritage Trail 2 mi · ▲ 316 ft
- Black Pond–Carper's Pond, 3 lakes 2.5 mi · ▲ 199 ft
- Follow the Hollows Trail & Madison's Escape Trail Loop via Bootlegger Trail 2.4 mi · ▲ 225 ft
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