Adams Morgan
Adams Morgan is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in the city's Northwest quadrant.
Adams Morgan is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in the city's Northwest quadrant. Adams Morgan is noted as a historic hub for counterculture and as an arts district. It is also known for its popular entertainment district and culinary scene, centered on both 18th Street and Columbia Road.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The Adams Morgan Heritage Trail is a 2-hour self-guided walking tour around the neighborhood. The tour will take you to 18 poster-sized street signs that include historical information, pictures, and maps. Important sites on the trails are marked by large poster-sized signs attached to lampposts. Each of Columbia Heights, Mount Pleasant, and Adams Morgan have a separate Neighborhood Heritage Trail.
- 01Mexican Cultural Center
- 02Stoddard Baptist Nursing Home
Mount Pleasant's residential streets are filled with beautiful old single-family homes and rowhouses, and several old estates.
- 03Meridian Hill Park
- 04Walter Pierce Park
A beautiful park with a community garden, dog park, basketball court, chess tables, and children's area.
- 05Canto a la Esperanza
Song for Hope is Mount Pleasant's mural, covering a whole block.
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Things to do
- 01District of Columbia Arts Center
The Arts Center has an art gallery with rotating high-quality shows by local artists, as well as a very cool black box theater, and regular and special events (like avant garde poetry nights).
- 02GALA Hispanic Theatre at Tivoli Theatre
GALA stands for Grupo de Artistas Latino Americanas.
- 03Suns Cinema
Tiny local gem of a movie theater in a converted townhouse.
- 04Sunday Drum Circle @ Meridian Hill Park
- 05Tuesday Swing Dancing
Weekly swing dancing in the Josephine Butler Parks Center, a 1920s marble-filled mansion that once housed the Brazilian and Hungarian Embassies.
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Where to eat
Jumbo Slice Pizza is the food specialty of Adams Morgan. Various take out stores along the 18th St nightlife strip, between Columbia Rd and Florida Ave, serve enormous, greasy slices of pizza for around $8 per slice to hungry drunks until 4AM.
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Getting to Adams Morgan
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 8 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 36 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 43 km
- Baltimore → Adams Morgan55 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · $5–7
- Richmond → Adams Morgan156 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · $14–19
- Philadelphia → Adams Morgan198 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · $17–24
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Adams Morgan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Adams Morgan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPotomac Riverboat Company operates water taxis from Alexandria to Georgetown ($21 one-way) with narrated tours of the monuments.
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Next door to Adams Morgan
Adams Morgan is 3 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.