BACKROADS • FEBRUARY 2022
WE’RE OUTTA HERE THE CASSELMAN INN
113 MAIN ST, GRANTSVILLE, MARYLAND 21536 301-895-5055 • thecasselman.com Who does not love coming across a real treat while riding a road trip? For the most part, we’re all just enjoying the ride and, now and again, something special this way comes. Or, in our case, we stumbled upon it. Heading east along Route 40, also known as The National Pike, we crossed from Pennsylvania into Maryland.
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a weekend destinationkeeping you on the backroads The roadway is probably the most historic road crossing in the Appalachian Mountains. Originally an Indian trail known as Nemacolin’s Path, it became a military road when General Braddock marched west from Fort Cumberland in 1755 on his ill-fated expedition to Fort Duquesne. For 25 years this rough military road was the main route of travel connecting the East with the Ohio Valley. Today the horses have been replaced by our bikes and it was getting time to rest our rides and feed ourselves. It was late morning and running into that Twilight Zone of desires… breakfast or lunch? At this point? Whatever they are serving – where ever they are. Just a short time after crossing the Mason-Dixon Line we came upon the town of Grantsville and The Casselman Inn. We had left a historic inn that morning, but as grand as The Summit was, The Casselman Inn seemed to ooze its
