received a Bikeways Program grant for 80% of the estimated cost for bridge design. Prince George's County and Anne Arundel County will share equally the 20% match. The Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works will manage the design effort for the bridge. There are currently plans for a 544-foot bridge between the two approaches, including the 160-foot main span over the Patuxent. The contract is anticipated to be awarded in summer 2021, after which construction will commence in the fall. The second part of Phase IV of the trail will build a 2.06 mile spur east of the current trail north from the intersection of Strawberry Lake Way and Waugh Chapel Road, through the Odenton Natural Area and then across the school grounds of Arundel High School and Middle School to Phase II of the South Shore Trail. In addition to the WB&A Trail, the South Shore Trail, built along right of way of the same railroad, will eventually connect the trail to Annapolis; and the Bowie Heritage Trail will connect it to Bowie State University and the Bowie MARC station. An extension of the trail north along the old WB&A right-of-way, paralleling the existing road, all the way to the BWI Trail, was included in the 1995 West County Trail Master Plan and the 2002 Severn Small Area Plan, but not in the 2013 Anne Arundel County Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan. In the Fall of 2019, the county began a two-year feasibility study of what they called the BWI to Odenton Trail. An extension of the trail south to the Marvin Gaye Park Trail in Washington, DC, along Maryland Route 704, is in both the Prince George's County 2009 and 2016 Bicycle Master Plan. A feasibility study of this extension was conducted in 2018. References External links Prince George's County Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Recreational Trail website Anne Arundel County web page for WB&A Trail Prince George's County section of WB&A Trail map Bike Washington: The Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Trail Rail trails in Maryland American Discovery Trail East Coast Greenway Parks in Prince George's County, Maryland Parks in Anne Arundel County, Maryland Transportation in Prince George's County, Maryland Transportation in Anne Arundel County, Maryland