Clara Barton Parkway

Clara Barton Parkway
Route information
Maintained by National Park Service
Length	6.8 mi[1] (10.9 km)
Existed	1930[2]–present
Tourist routes	C&O Canal Scenic Byway
Restrictions	No trucks; one-way traffic during rush hour
Major junctions
West end	MacArthur Boulevard in Potomac, MD
Major intersections	I-495 in Potomac, MD Cabin John Parkway in Cabin John, MD
East end	Chain Bridge / Canal Road in Washington, DC
Location
Country	United States
States	Maryland, District of Columbia
Counties	Montgomery
Highway system
Scenic Byways National National Forest BLM NPS
Streets and Highways of Washington, DC Interstate US DC State-Named Streets

The Clara Barton Parkway is a parkway in the U.S. state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. The highway runs 6.8 miles (10.9 km) from MacArthur Boulevard in Carderock, Maryland, east to Canal Road at the Chain Bridge in Washington. The Clara Barton Parkway is a two- to four-lane parkway that parallels the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) in southwestern Montgomery County, Maryland, and the far western corner of Washington. The parkway provides access to the communities of Cabin John and Glen Echo and several units of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. The Maryland portion of the George Washington Memorial Parkway was constructed from Carderock past Interstate 495 (I-495) to Glen Echo in the early to mid-1960s. The parkway was proposed to continue west to Great Falls and east to Georgetown. However, these proposals never came to fruition and the parkway was extended only to the Chain Bridge in the early 1970s. The Maryland portion of the George Washington Memorial Parkway was renamed in 1989 for Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, and whose original headquarters is located in Glen Echo.