MD 260 heads southeast as a two-lane undivided road on a straight path for almost 6 miles (9.7 km).

The highway crosses a pair of tributaries of Hall Creek, running by the historic home Maidstone and passing through the southwestern corner of Anne Arundel County.

[1][2] MD 260's heading shifts from southeast to east where it meets Mount Harmony Road at a trumpet interchange in the hamlet of Paris.

The median narrows as MD 260 enters the town of Chesapeake Beach and ends as the highway transitions to a two-lane road with a center left-turn lane at G Street.

[7][8] The first major upgrade of MD 260 occurred in 1934 when the highway was relocated to a straighter path, bypassing what is now Horace Ward Road, and paved and widened to 20 feet (6.1 m) from the west end of the relocation at Boyds Turn Road to MD 261 in Chesapeake Beach.

[9][10] This bridge was built contemporaneously with the end of passenger service on the Chesapeake Beach Railway in 1935.

[12] This segment of highway was reconstructed as a 24-foot (7.3 m) wide road surfaced with bituminous stabilized gravel in 1951.

[16][17] MD 260 was expanded to a four-lane divided highway from Mount Harmony Road east to G Street in Chesapeake Beach in 1960.