The Middle Patuxent Environmental Area
(MPEA) is easily accessed from the Trotter Road parking area.
Trotter Road is between MD-108 on the north and MD-32 on the south
and is in the western end of Columbia, just east of Clarksville.
Click on the MapBlast icon on the right to go to a map of the location
of the MPEA. The MPEA parking lot is shown with the a large red "X".
You may zoom the map to show the detail desired.
Note that the boundries of the MPEA are NOT shown correctly
From MD-32 WESTbound from US-29 and I-95, take the Great Star Drive Exit, right at the end of the ramp, right at the next block, and the next left onto Trotter Road. The MPEA parking lot is on the right just after the traffic circle.
From MD-108 (west of Columbia and US29; east of Clarksville and MD-32), take Trotter Road for 0.9 mile to MPEA parking lot on left. The distance on MD-32 from US-29 to Trotter Road is close to 5 miles.
Take MD-108 east from Clarksville a short distance to Trotter Road on the right. Go 0.9 miles on Trotter Road to the MPEA Parking lot on the left. Clarksville is at the intersection of MD-108 and MD-32
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