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id: "2265"
name: Horses and Hounds Scenic Byway
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duration: 2 hours
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.sha.maryland.gov/Index.aspx?PageId=97&d=54"
    name: Maryland State Scenic Byways
  - url: "http://www.mdisfun.org/"
    name: Maryland Tourism
designations: 
  - Maryland State Scenic Byway
states: 
  - MD
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The valleys and vistas of this route create the illusion that this byway has taken you into the English countryside. Fox hunting is still popular here, and the hunt races, as they're called, attract the country's best steeplechasers.