Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
I'll be traveling to Ocean City, MD from FL next month and want to take the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel from the south end. Has anyone had issues with crossing this long bridge/tunnel with their RV ...
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RavensFan24 wrote:For those who find the CBBT too nerve-wracking or otherwise impossible to do, there is another alternative that avoids 99% of the DC/Baltimore hassle.
if I can't utilize this bridge/tunnel then I have to go up and around the bay and that would easily add 100 miles to the trip.
Just north of Richmond, take 301 North. Follow it through Virginia, cross the Potomac into Maryland, there's a bit of stop-n-go through the LaPlata/Waldorf areas, but it's really not that bad, unless you hit it at 5:00PM on a Friday in the summer. Join up with US 50 west of Annapolis, take the Chesapeake Bay Bridge across the Bay there, and then stay on 301N up the Eastern Shore. US50 branches off a little ways into Maryland and heads to Ocean City MD, but 301 goes more or less north.
This is a very simple, easy drive - divided highway nearly all the way, flat, no traffic lights until you get up to Middletown DE.'
Once in Middletown, you can either stay on 301 and go north, or go a little farther east on DE 299 and get on DE 1 - either way, you connect with I-95 up near Wilmington.
301 through Virginia and the Eastern Shore is a very nice alternative.
