The highway heads north along Taylor Avenue, a two-lane undivided municipally maintained road along the east side of Annapolis National Cemetery.

MD 435 turns south from Taylor Avenue onto Annapolis Street and enters the campus of the U.S.

The highway curves east again and reaches its eastern terminus at MD 450, which heads east across the Severn River on Baltimore–Annapolis Boulevard and south toward downtown Annapolis on King George Street.

[3][4] MD 435 was constructed as an 18-foot-wide (5.5 m) road beginning at the Annapolis, Washington and Baltimore Railroad.

[10] The portion of MD 435 south of Rosedale Street was transferred from state to municipal maintenance in 1978.