Destinations · Maryland
National Harbor
MD · 38.7842, -77.0164
From National Harbor, Maryland, Byway's registries place 7 scenic byways within 30 miles.
Understand
The site has a convention center, six hotels, restaurants, shops, and condominiums. National Harbor hosted Cirque du Soleil in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014 and features outdoor activities such as a culinary festival and outdoor concerts by military bands, an outdoor movie screen facing the river, an annual ice sculpture exhibition, and a Peeps Day with a Peeps eating contest. The national spelling bee competition is held there. The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, with 2,000 rooms, is the largest hotel between New Jersey and Florida, and the largest in the Washington area.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- George Washington Memorial Parkway · 2 mi · national
- Booth's Escape · 5 mi
- Star-Spangled Banner Byway · 9 mi
- Old Georgetown Pike · 13 mi
- Religious Freedom Byway · 16 mi · national
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway · 19 mi
Lookouts
- Fort Washington Overlook · 5 mi
- Viewing Area · 8 mi
- Freedom Park Viewpoint · 8 mi
- George Washington Memorial Parkway Overlook 1 · 10 mi
Named places
- Spirit Park Carousel · 0 mi
- The Capital Wheel at National Harbor · 0 mi
- Oxon Hill Farm · 1 mi
- Fort Foote · 1 mi
- South Corner Boundary Stone · 1 mi
- World War I-Era Rudder · 1 mi
- Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial · 2 mi
- Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Musuem · 2 mi
A day out of National Harbor, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Alexandria · 2 mi
- Fort Washington · 3 mi
- Arlington (Virginia)/Crystal City · 5 mi
- Mount Vernon · 5 mi
- South Alexandria · 5 mi
- Clinton-Camp Springs · 6 mi