Metropolitan Branch Trail

Metropolitan Branch Trail
The Metropolitan Branch Trail
Length	8 miles (13 km)
Location	Washington, D.C.
Trailheads	South: Union Station, North: Silver Spring
Use	Hiking, Biking
Website	DDOT Project Website

The Metropolitan Branch Trail (informally, the Met Branch Trail) is a partially-built American rail trail between the transit center in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Union Station in the District of Columbia. When completed, it will run for 8 miles (13 km): one in Maryland and seven in Washington, D.C. The trail parallels Metrorail and CSX tracks along a right-of-way opened in 1873 as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)'s Metropolitan Branch.

The trail is part of the East Coast Greenway. It is to connect to the Capital Crescent Trail when that trail is completed. A planned connection from Fort Totten to the Northwest Branch Trail of the Anacostia Tributary Trail System at Hyattsville, Maryland is partially built.