The last piece of trail passes through the Berwyn Neighborhood Playground on its way to the northern trailhead at Greenbelt Road.
The first section of the trail, a 1.1-mile-long (1.8 km) stretch north from Campus Drive (formerly known as Paint Branch Parkway) to Greenbelt Road in College Park, opened in 2002.
[5] In 2013–14, that section was extended south to Farragut Street and north to Queensberry Road by the Maryland–National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
[10] In 2020–21, the one-block-section from Van Buren to Woodbury was finished, completing the Riverdale Station section and creating a contiguious trail from Farragut Street in Hyattsville to Greenbelt Road in College Park.
[11] In 2013, the trail gap between Calvert Road and Campus Drive was closed when a segment was built as a sidepath along Rhode Island Avenue.
The project was conducted alongside a road diet narrowing of the northbound side of U.S. Route 1 parallel to the trail.
[15] The Maryland Department of Transportation plans to improve the Greenbelt Road–University Boulevard pedestrian-crossing in College Park in the future.