 The highway parallels CSX's Popes Creek Subdivision on a sweeping curve from east to north through the community of Newburg.US 301 passes a welcome center and has a directional crossover intersection with MD 257 (Rock Point Road).The highway curves northwest at its directional crossover intersection with MD 234 (Budds Creek Road) at the hamlet of Glasva, then curves north again between Faulkner and Bel Alton, from which Chapel Point Road leads west to Chapel Point State Park.