Destinations · Maryland
National Harbor
MD · 38.7842, -77.0164
George Washington Memorial Parkway, Booth's Escape and Star-Spangled Banner Byway are 3 of 7 signed byways within 30 miles of National Harbor, Maryland.
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.
The same roads run past Clinton-Camp Springs, where they are ranked and described in full.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for National Harbor are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
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
- The Awakening · 0 mi
- Spirit Park Carousel · 0 mi
- Spirit Park · 0 mi
- The Capital Wheel at National Harbor · 0 mi
- Potomac Vista Recreation Area · 1 mi
- Betty Blume Park · 1 mi
- Fort Foote Recreation Center · 1 mi
- Oxon Hill Manor · 1 mi
A day out of National Harbor, planned on real roads
The engine starts from town, weaves the byways and verified stops around it, and hands back an honest schedule — zero hallucinations.
Take the scenic way to National Harbor.
Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.
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