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The Metropolitan Branch Trail entered the DC Comprehensive Plan in the early 1990s and as early as 1993, the NPS was planning to build the 0.75 mile section from the Fort Totten Metro Station to South Dakota Ave; [3] in 1997, the DC Department of Public Works (DPW) completed an engineering feasibility study that determined that it would be ...
The Rock Creek Trails are a series of trails through the Rock Creek valley and along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland.The main route extends 22 miles from Lake Needwood in Maryland to the Inlet Bridge in Washington, D.C., with a loop in the north part of Rock Creek Park and other trails through the Klingle Valley, Turkey Branch Valley, and along the North ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 00:33, 3 December 2013: 760 × 630 (67 KB): Rfc1394: Add Silver Line for 2014; drop orange-line rush hour extension; add 5 named stations to silver line; extend silver line to Largo Town Center; add 6 unfinished Silver Line stations; extend District of Columbia line slightly to keep silver line inside DC
Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail, a 44.8 miles (72.1 km) paved rail trail that travels northwest from the Arlington County/Alexandria boundary to Purcellville, Virginia (accessed from the Four Mile Run Trail). Rock Creek Park Trail, a paved trail that travels north through Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland and ends near ...
Cultural Tourism DC (CTDC) offered a range of guided and self-guided walking tours of historic neighborhoods in Washington, DC. These Neighborhood Heritage Trails relate the history of DC's communities through poster-sized street signs displaying text, maps, and historic photos. The 1-to-2-mile (1.6 to 3.2 km) walking tours can be navigated ...
Almost none of the National Mall west of the Washington Monument grounds and below Constitution Avenue NW existed prior to 1882. [5] After terrible flooding inundated much of downtown Washington, D.C., in 1881, Congress ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge a deep channel in the Potomac and use the material to fill in the Potomac (creating the current banks of the river) and raise much ...
The Capital Crescent Trail (CCT) is a 7.04-mile (11.33 km), shared-use rail trail that runs from Georgetown in Washington, D.C., to Bethesda, Maryland.An extension of the trail from Bethesda to Silver Spring along a route formerly known as the Georgetown Branch Trail is being built as part of the Purple Line light rail project.
The Anacostia Tributary Trail System (ATTS) is a unified and signed system of stream valley trails joining trails along the Anacostia tributaries of Northwest Branch, Northeast Branch, Indian Creek and Paint Branch with a trail along the Anacostia River, set aside and maintained by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.