The Maryland State Police and Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) are proactively announcing that snow emergency plans will go into effect at noon Friday in advance of a potentially historic storm expected Friday and Saturday. The Statewide Snow Emergency restricts travel on all highways designated as a snow emergency route unless the vehicle is equipped with chains, snow tires or all season radials. This includes commercial vehicles operating on hauling permits which are not valid during a snow emergency.
The snow emergency plan also allows the Maryland State Police to IMMEDIATELY TOW any vehicles in the road or on the shoulder and restricts all parking on designated snow emergency routes.
Designated snow emergency routes in St. Mary’s County include:
MD Route 4 (St. Andrew’s Church Road/Patuxent Beach Road)
MD Route 5 (Point Lookout Road/Three Notch Road)
MD Route 6 (New Market Turner Road)
MD Route 234 (Budds Creek Road)
MD Route 235 (Three Notch Road)
MD Route 236 (Thompsons Corner Road)
MD Route 237 (Chancellors Run Road)
MD Route 238 (Chaptico Road)
MD Route 239 (Bushwood Wharf Rd)
MD Route 242 (Colton Point Road)
MD Route 243 (Newtowne Neck Road)
MD Route 244 (Medleys Neck Road)
MD Route 245 (Hollywood Road/Sotterly Road)
MD Route 246 (Great Mills Road)
MD Route 247 (Loveville Road)
MD Route 249 (Piney Point Road)
MD Route 470 (Oakley Road)
MD Route 471 (Indian Bridge Road)
MD Route 472 (North Sandgates Road)
MD Route 489 (Park Hall Road)
MD Route 520 (Whites Neck Road)
MD Route 584 (From MD Route 5)
MD Route 712 (Forest Park Road)
MD Route 863 (From MD Route 5)
MD Route 868 (Stone Corner Lane)
MD Route 944 (Mervell Dean Road)
MD Route 945 (Old MD Route 235)
