 The highway reaches its eastern terminus at Long Cove Public Landing on Long Cove, an inlet of Langford Creek just north of where the creek empties into the Chester River.MD 288 was constructed as a concrete road from Coleman's Corner on the Rock Hall–Chestertown road to Crouch's Wharf on Piney Neck in 1925 and 1926.MD 288 was resurfaced with bituminous concrete in 1965.