---
id: "2269"
name: Booth's Escape
distance: "66"
duration: 2 hours to drive the byway.
description: This byway follows the escape route of one of history's most notorious assassins on MD-5 from the Maryland border south via other routes to Bel Alton.
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websites:
  - url: https://www.visitmaryland.org/escape-route-john-wilkes-booth
    name: Maryland Travel Guide
designations:
  - Maryland State Scenic Byway
states:
  - MD
ll:
  - -77.01461799999998
  - 38.35928000000001
bounds:
  - - -77.01461799999998
    - 38.35928000000001
  - - -76.817383
    - 38.85490000000004

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One of four Maryland Civil War Trails, this byway follows the escape route of one of history's most notorious assassins. After shooting President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., John Wilkes Booth fled into Southern Maryland and eluded Federal troops for nearly two weeks before being cornered in a Virginia barn.