Route Description
The road starts as a four-lane road at Maryland Route 28 near Darnestown, quickly condensing to two lanes at it begins its northward path. It passes through residential areas on Germantown Road and then enters a forest, where it bridges Great Seneca Creek. It continues north, passing by a large electrical substation and passes through more forest before it enters a residential development in southern Germantown. Here, the road widens to four lanes, with a median, as it passes through the town. It crosses the MARC Train's Brunswick Line and then interchanges at Exit 15 of Interstate 270. After this interchange, Maryland Route 118 lanes range between four and six as it continues east to its end at Maryland Route 355 near the Neelsville neighborhood in Germantown. Germantown Road, however, continues east of this intersection.
Points of interest along MD 118 include several shopping centers, Germantown Town Center (including, just off 118, the Germantown Library and the Black Rock Center for the Arts), the United States Department of Energy Germantown complex, South Germantown Recreational Park, and the Maryland SoccerPlex. The farm property to which Washington Senators' Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Walter Johnson retired is near the intersection of Route 118 and Wisteria Road; less than 500 feet (150 m) southeast of that intersection is a small section of road named in his honor.
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