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Take ON-417w to ON-416 towards ON-401

ON-401W to ON-137S

ON-137S to I-81S

I-81 S to I-70 E (Hagerstown, MD.)

I-70 E to I-270 E

I-270 E to I-95 S to Lorton

Watch the weather - can be tricky going I-81 thru ny & PA in the winter

Also be very careful between sunset and sunrise, there's alot of deer that wander onto the interstate, trust me

FWIW, both Google Maps and the TomTom Route Planner suggest taking I-81 to Harrisburg, PA, then taking US-15 down to Frederick, MD. From there it's I-270, then I-495, bypassing Washington, DC, on the west side.

I took the US-15 portion of that route many years ago on the motorcycle, and I remember being surprised that significant stretches of it were 4-lane divided controlled-access highway. I planned that route on paper using my own "avoid freeways" preference, long before I owned a GPS. However, those stretches were not an unpleasant surprise because the highway was in really good shape and traffic was very light. (But I repeat: this was many years ago.)

Certainly a lot would depend on traffic, weather, construction, and so on. One thing I notice about the route suggested in the original reply is that it appears to go over the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge, and bridges can be a natural choke point for traffic.