This trip is 9 days. I could have filled it up with at least another week but because I am not independently wealthy, we have jobs to get back to and bills to pay!
Day 1)
7AM - Leave Home
2 - 30 minute Gas/Rest Stops
8PM - Arrive at Hotel in Bethesda, MD
Day 2)
9AM - Leave Hotel
915AM to 11AM - Rock Creek Park - Nature Center and Planetarium - 5200 Glover Rd NW
Free Planetarium tickets available 30 minutes prior to show
Open: Wednesday thru Sunday 9-5
1115AM to 1145AM - Peirce Mill and Barn - 2401 Tilden St
Free
April-Dec, Wed-Sun 10-4
12PM to 1230PM - Old Stone House - 3051 M St NW
Daily 11-6
Free
*Rock Creek Park Headquarters - 3545 Williamsburg Lane NW
1235PM to 1PM - Francis Scott Key Memorial Park - 34th and M St
Free
*Star Spangled Banner Monument
115PM to 3PM - Arlington House & Arlington Cemetery - National Park Service
Free
Daily 9-530
*JFK Grave
*Tomb of the Unknowns
*National Cemetery Visitors Center
310PM to 330PM - LBJ Memorial Grove - Lady Bird Johnson Park
Open 6a-10p
Free
NPS
335PM to 345PM - Pentagon Memorial - 1 Rotary Rd, Arlington, VA
Free
415PM -Greenbelt Park - 6565 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD
Camp - $16
Day 3)
730AM - Leave Camp
8AM - Park @ East Potomac Park - 1100 Ohio Drive SW
National Mall - National Park Service
815AM to 845AM - Jefferson Memorial
Free
Open 24 Hrs
915AM to 10AM - Washington Monument
9-5
Free tickets online
1015AM to 1215PM - US Holocaust Memorial Museum - 100 Rauol Wallenberg Pl SW
Free - Advance $1 Online
1215-1230 - grab a sandwich at museum cafe and walk to next destination
1245PM to 130PM - White House Visitor Center - 1450 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Free
730-4
145PM to 2PM - Layfayette Park - Northern Trail
220PM to 245PM - The Ellipse
3PM to 315PM - WWII Memorial
330PM to 345PM - Albert Einstein Memorial - 2101 Constitution Ave NW
345PM to 415PM - Constitution Gardens
*Reflecting Pool
*56 Signers Memorial
*Vietnam Vet Memorial
*Lock Keepers House
*DC War Memorial
430PM to 445PM - Lincoln Memorial
Free
24 Hrs
5PM to 515PM - MLK Jr Memorial
530PM to 6PM - FDR Memorial
615PM - Back to Car
645PM - Greenbelt Park - Campsite
*Bring Snacks
*Food Vendors Available
D4)
8AM - Leave Camp
Park @ Colonial Pepco Parking Garage - $15
Walk to Gallery Place Chinatown, take the Green to L'Enfant Plaza - Arrive 836AM
10 Minute walk to...
845AM to 930AM - Smithsonian Castle
FREE
945AM to 12PM - National Museum of American History
FREE
12PM to 1230PM - Lunch
1235PM to 230PM - National Museum of Natural History
FREE
245PM to 315PM - National Archives
FREE
10-530
330PM to 345PM - Peterson House
FREE
4PM to 530PM - Fords Theatre - 511 10th St SW
$2.50
One Destiny - 35 min. @ 430PM
Museum - 30 min. @ 4PM
7 min walk to car
615PM - Greenbelt Park Campsite
D5)
830AM - Leave Camp
9AM - Park @ Colonial Pepco Parking Garage
905AM to 11AM - International Spy Museum - 800 F St NW
9a-7p
A$21.95, K$14.95
1105AM to 1PM - National Museum of Crime and Punishment - 575 7th St NW
9a-7p
Web tickets A$18, K$14
110PM to 120PM - Gallery Place Chinatown Metro
130PM to 230PM - Carter G Woodson Home NHS
Free
245PM Shaw Metro
249PM Arrive Gallery Place
3PM Car
310PM to 330PM - Lincoln Park
*Emancipation Statue
Free
4PM to 5PM - Theodore Roosevelt Island - George Washington Memorial Parkway
FREE
NPS
6a-10p
*Theodore Roosevelt Statue
520PM to 530PM - Woodrow Wilson House - 2340 S St NW
No Entry-Just Photo
6PM - Greenbelt Park Campsite
D6)
8AM - Leave Camp
Park @ Colonial Hall of the States $15
12 min walk...
845AM to 1030AM - US Capitol Building - 1st St & E Capitol St
830-430 Monday -Saturday
FREE
*Capitol Visitor Center
Book Tour Online in Advance
1045AM to 12PM - US Botanic Garden
FREE
*Ulysses S Grant Memorial
1215PM to 1PM - Lunch
115PM to 130PM - Library of Congress - Photo
145PM to 2PM - US Supreme Court - Photo
215PM - Union Station Metro
*DC Visitor Center - 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW
*Old Post Office Tower
*Washington DC Gift Shop - 801 K ST NW - Mt Vernon Square
*Union Station - Destination DC Gift Shop
Greenbelt Park Campsite
D7)
8AM - Leave Camp
845AM to 145PM - George Washingtons Mount Vernon - 3200 Mount Vernon Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA
8-5
A$17, K$9
215PM - Prince William Forest Park - 18100 Park Headquarters Road, Triangle, VA
Camp - $20
D8)
9AM - Leave Camp
10AM to 12PM - Steven F Udvar-Hazy Air/Space Museum - 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway, Chantilly, VA
FREE
10a-530p
7PM - Hotel in Knoxville, TN
D9)
9AM - Leave Hotel
Visit Sunsphere - Leave Knoxville -10AM
3PM - Home
Other Interests:
President Lincoln's Cottage - 140 Rock Creek Church Road - A$15, K$5
Monday-Saturday 930-430, Sunday 1030-430
Great Falls Park
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