Maryland Route 953

Maryland Route 953 (MD 953) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Glenn Dale Road, the state highway runs 3.53 miles (5.68 km) from MD 193 north to a dead end at Amtrak's Northeast Corridor railroad line within Glenn Dale. MD 953 is the old alignment of MD 193, part of which was originally MD 199. MD 199 was a short route constructed north from what is now MD 450 in the mid-1920s and removed from the state highway system in the mid-1950s. MD 193 was extended east and south from Greenbelt over the length of Glenn Dale Road to just north of U.S. Route 50 (US 50) in the mid-1960s. After MD 193 was placed on a new divided highway through Glenn Dale in the mid-1980s, MD 953 was assigned to Glenn Dale Road.