Destinations · Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C./Anacostia
DC · 38.8672, -76.9658
From Washington, D.C./Anacostia, Washington, D.C., Byway's registries place 7 scenic byways within 30 miles.
Understand
Most D.C. metro area residents reflexively recoil in fear at the sound of infamous "Anacostia," known only for its extreme poverty, prowess in homicide statistics, and the ever lurking danger of accidentally crossing that river and falling into a panic attack, hopelessly lost among its labyrinthine streets.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Booth's Escape · 1 mi
- George Washington Memorial Parkway · 4 mi · national
- Star-Spangled Banner Byway · 5 mi
- Old Georgetown Pike · 11 mi
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Byway · 17 mi
- Roots and Tides Byway · 21 mi
Lookouts
Named places
- Good Hope Hill · 0 mi
- J. Robert Elliott · 1 mi
- Smithsonian Institution Anacostia Community Museum · 1 mi
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site · 1 mi
- John Gould Stephenson · 1 mi
- Stephen Pleasonton · 1 mi
- Thomas Harmon Patterson · 1 mi
- Anne Royall · 1 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Washington, D.C./Capitol Hill · 2 mi
- Suitland · 3 mi
- Washington, D.C./Near Northeast · 3 mi
- Washington, D.C./Waterfront · 3 mi
- Washington, D.C./East End · 4 mi
- Washington, D.C./National Mall · 4 mi