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For rail-to-bus or bus-to-rail discounts or free bus-to-bus transfers you'll need to use their SmarTrip rechargeable farecard.īicycles are permitted on Metrorail (two per car) on weekdays except during rush hours 7-10am and 4-7pm and all day Saturdays, Sundays and most holidays. Metro also has bus service with 1,500 vehicles on 325 routes, and 11,500 area bus stops. Dupont Circle has a station on the Red Line. DC's Metro will comfortably get you where you're going with six MetroRail lines and over 90 stations across the District, Maryland and Virginia.
Rather than dealing with heavy traffic and difficult parking, leave your car in your hotel's garage. From here, Metrorail takes you most anywhere else in the city. Union Station (50 Massachusetts Ave NE) the arrival point for Amtrak trains, is also a destination in itself. Baltimore/Washington International (aka the Thurgood Marshall) has easy rail and bus connections to both cities. Washington Dulles International, 26 miles west of downtown, has Washington Flyer Coaches leaving every 30 minutes for Metro's West Falls Church station. From here the Metro connects you directly to downtown. The Ronald Reagan National Airport (simply 'National' to locals) is small but ideally situated across the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia.
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Washington has two airports, plus another that's conveniently close, near Baltimore, Maryland. Rock Creek Park runs through much of the city, on either side of the winding eponymous stream and parkway running through the woodlands. P Street Beach is a green oasis alongside Rock Creek, perfect for daytime tanning and nighttime liaisons (police do patrol here, so be careful).
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One of the country's most pleasant gay districts, Dupont Circle is full of sidewalk cafes, bars, clubs, shops, and lots of interesting people. The main gay center of gravity is the Dupont Circle neighborhood. Avenues named for the states cut through at angles. The Capitol building is at the center, and streets spread out in a grid pattern. Washington is an easy city to navigate, divided into Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest quadrants. Used to be you could ask, not tell - but there have been some changes these past 20 years! Perhaps you'll find one of them in the dark corners at the Eagle, or amid the crush of shirtless hunks at the Green Lantern. There's brass at the Pentagon, but it's the buff young marines running laps near the Navy Yard barracks (in tight, very brief shorts) you'll want to polish. Maybe that's why it's so easy to get to know people in this company town. It seems as if most people here are from somewhere else, brought to the nation's capital by jobs in the government, one of the related industries or in the military. Washingtonians take pride in their mobility and adaptability. See the CDC website for details and updates. There are restrictions on the entry of some travelers into the United States in an effort to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Emergency measures in the wake of Covid-19: