Maryland Route 297 (MD 297) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Worton Road, the state highway runs 3.59 miles (5.78 km) from MD 213 in Chestertown north to MD 298 in Worton in central Kent County. MD 297 was constructed in the late 1920s. The state highway extended northwest to the village of Newtown between the mid-1940s and mid-1990s.

MD 297 begins at MD 213 (Augustine Herman Highway) at the northern end of a developed area north of Chestertown. The two-lane state highway, which parallels a natural ridge that serves as the boundary for multiple drainage basins, heads north through a mix of farmland and industrial properties, paralleling the Chestertown Branch of the Northern Line of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad. MD 297 passes through the unincorporated community of Worton, where the highway crosses the rail line. The state highway continues north, passing Worton Regional Park before reaching its northern terminus at MD 298 (Lambs Meadow Road) just west of Kent County High School in the hamlet of Butlertown.

Following the completion of the Kent County Rail Road, Worton was settled where Worton Road intersects the modern Maryland and Delaware Railroad. MD 297 was paved starting in 1926. A small piece of highway north of U.S. Route 213 (now MD 213) was completed in 1927; the remainder of the highway to MD 298 was completed in 1928. By 1946, MD 297 was extended north along Smithville Road to the village of Newtown. The extension to Newtown was removed from the state highway system around 1995.

The entire route is in Kent County.