District of Columbia Route 295

District of Columbia Route 295
DC 295 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by District of Columbia DOT
Length	4.29 mi[1] (6.90 km)
Major junctions
South end	I-295 / I-695 in Washington
North end	MD 201 near Capitol Heights, MD
Location
Country	United States
Federal district	District of Columbia
Highway system
Streets and Highways of Washington, DC Interstate US DC State-Named Streets
← I-295 → I-395

District of Columbia Route 295 (DC 295), also known as the Anacostia Freeway as well as the Kenilworth Avenue Freeway north of East Capitol Street, is a freeway in the District of Columbia, and currently the only signed numbered route in the District that is not an Interstate Highway or U.S. Highway. Also, DC 295 is one of the few city-level signed route numbers in the United States, along with Charlotte Route 4. The south end is at the junction of Interstate 295 (I-295), I-695, and the southern end of the 11th Street Bridges though originally I-295 was part of DC 295. Its north end is at the border with Maryland where it connects to Maryland 295 (The Baltimore-Washington Parkway), Maryland Route 201 (MD 201), and US Route 50.