MD 361 begins on Fairmount Road between the Fairmount Volunteer Fire Department and Clinton Bozman Road on the west edge of Upper Fairmount. Fairmount Road continues west as a county highway toward Fairmount, Frenchtown, and Rumbly. MD 361 heads east as a two-lane undivided road through the Upper Fairmount Historic District, passing Upper Hill Road and an old alignment of the highway, Jones Factory Road, before leaving Upper Fairmount and running through the Chesapeake Forest Lands.
MD 361 starts on Fairmount Road at its western edge, near the Fairmount Volunteer Fire Department and Clinton Bozman Road. It then heads west along Fairmount Road as a county highway toward Fairmount, Frenchtown, and Rumbly. Continuing east, MD 361 passes through the historic Upper Fairmount district, crossing Upper Hill Road and an old road alignment before leaving Fairmount and entering the Chesapeake Forest Lands.