Maryland Route 117
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| MD Route 117 |
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| Bucklodge Road, Clopper Road, West Diamond Avenue Maintained by MDSHA |
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| Length: | 12.67 mi[1] (20.39 km) | ||||||||||||
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| West end: |  MD 28 near Dawsonville |
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| Major junctions: |
 MD 121 |
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| East end: |  MD 355 in Gaithersburg |
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Maryland Route 117 is the one of three highways connecting the major Washington, D.C. suburbs of Gaithersburg, MD and Germantown, MD (the other two being Interstate 270 and Maryland Route 355). Its 12.67 mile span consists of three roads - West Diamond Avenue at the easternmost section, Clopper Road for the majority of Route 117's length as it moves into Gaithersburg and into Boyds, then Bucklodge Road from Boyds to its termination at Maryland Route 28.
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Maryland Route 117 begins at Route 28 in Boyds near Darnestown, where it heads north on two-lane Bucklodge Road. It turns to the northeast, then to the southeast, and heads into Germantown, where it intersects Maryland Route 121. It then becomes Clopper Road, a two- and four-lane road at various points. It keeps this name up until the intersection with Maryland Route 124, where it becomes two-lane West Diamond Avenue. It then interchanges with Interstate 270 at Exit 10 and continues to Maryland Route 355, where the road continues as Old Towne Avenue to Summit Avenue.
Points of interest along Route 117 include Old Town Gaithersburg at its eastern end, the National Institute of Standards and Technology near Route 124, Seneca Creek State Park near the Germantown/Gaithersburg border, and Little Seneca Regional Park near the Germantown/Boyds border.
The Germantown/Boyds section west of Route 119 to Bucklodge Road was largely farmland until the early 1990s, when the rapid development of Germantown began to replace much of the farmland with new home communities. Much of the western five miles remains undeveloped.
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