U.S. Highway 50

United States Highway 50 is an east-west United States highway. As the "0" in its route number suggests, US 50 is a coast-to-coast route, or at least nearly so. Signs at both termini give the Maryland to California distance as 3,073 miles (4,946 km), though that mileage is based off of an older measurment and has likely changed due to bypasses, Interstate highway co-signings, and other realignments.

Historic sites along US 50

Maryland

• Kent Island, Maryland, first English settlement within Maryland

Virginia

• Arlington National Cemetery
• Ox Hill Battlefield Park (site of the Battle of Chantilly during the United States Civil War)

West Virginia

Prior to the US Numbered Highway System it was West Virginia State Route 1

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Hampshire County

• Hook's Tavern, 1790
• Frye's Inn, c. 1800
• Straw's Country Store Museum
• West Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, 1846
• Historic Downtown Romney
• Indian Mound Cemetery
• Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches
• The Burg, built c. 1769
• Sloan-Parker House (Stone House), built 1790

Mineral County

• Weaver?s Antique Service Station
• Claysville Church
• Patterson Creek Manor
• Saddle Mountain