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Added to NRHP. May 4, 2005. The Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, informally called the Rock Creek Parkway, is a parkway maintained by the National Park Service as part of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. It runs next to the Potomac River and Rock Creek in a generally north–south direction, carrying four lanes of traffic from the Lincoln ...
Interstate 495 Capital Beltway Capital Beltway highlighted in red Route information Auxiliary route of I-95 Maintained by VDOT and MDSHA Length 64 mi (103 km) Existed 1961–present Component highways I-495 entire route I-95 From Springfield, VA to College Park, MD going counterclockwise Tourist routes Star-Spangled Banner Scenic Byway NHS Entire route Major junctions Beltway around Washington ...
The George Washington Memorial Parkway, colloquially the G.W. Parkway, [3] [4] is a 25-mile-long (40 km) limited-access parkway that runs along the south bank of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, Virginia, northwest to McLean, Virginia, and is maintained by the National Park Service (NPS).
DC. State-Named Streets. In Washington, D.C., there are two current primary Interstate Highways and four current auxiliary Interstates. In addition, two proposed primary Interstates and two proposed auxiliary Interstates were cancelled in whole or in part. Interstate 495, also known as the "Capital Beltway", creates an artificial boundary for ...
U.S. Route 29 ( US 29) enters Washington, D.C., via the Key Bridge from Arlington County, Virginia, and exits at Silver Spring, Maryland. It predominantly follows city surface streets, although the portion of the route from the Key Bridge east to 26th Street Northwest is an elevated highway. The elevated section of US 29 in DC is better known ...
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the DC area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia ), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States. The metropolitan area includes all of Washington ...
DC. → I-495. Interstate 395 ( I-395) in Virginia and Washington, D.C., is a 13.79-mile-long (22.19 km) spur route of I-95 that begins at an interchange with I-95 in Springfield and ends at an interchange with US Route 50 (US 50) in Northwest Washington, D.C. It passes underneath the National Mall near the US Capitol and ends at a junction ...
The streets and highways of Washington, D.C., form the core of the surface transportation infrastructure in Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States. Given that it is a planned city, the city's streets follow a distinctive layout and addressing scheme. There are 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of public roads in the city, of which ...