Benning Ridge
Benning Ridge is a residential neighborhood located in Southeast Washington, D.C.
Benning Ridge is a residential neighborhood located in Southeast Washington, D.C. It is bounded by Fort Chaplin Park to the northwest, Southern Avenue to the south, Benning Road to the east, and Ridge Road SE to the west. Benning Ridge is an unusual neighborhood for its location east of the Anacostia River: although it is surrounded by working-class and low-income African American neighborhoods, Benning Ridge is rather affluent, with a diverse population of middle- and upper-middle-class white and black residents. As of 2015 the neighbourhood was one of the top ten most liberal neighbourhoods in Washington D.C.
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Worth seeing in and around Benning Ridge
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Congressional Cemetery
The Congressional Cemetery, officially Washington Parish Burial Ground, is a historic and active cemetery located at 1801 E Street in Washington, D.C., United States, in the Hill East neighborhood on the west bank of the Anacostia River. It is the only American "cemetery of national memory" founded before the Civil War.
3.4 km · cemetery in Washington, DC · Wikipedia - 02Anacostia Park
Anacostia Park is operated by the United States National Park Service. It is one of Washington, D.C.'s largest and most important recreation areas, with over 1200 acres at multiple sites.
2.7 km · park in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 03Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens is a National Park Service site located in the north eastern corner of Washington, D.C., near the Maryland state border. Nestled near the banks of the Anacostia River and directly west of the Baltimore–Washington Parkway, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens preserves a plethora of rare waterlilies and lotuses in the cultivated ponds near the river.
3.1 km · park in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 04D.C. Armory
The D.C. Armory is a mixed armory and 10,000-seat arena in Washington, D.C. Managed by the Events DC, the Armory opened in 1941, as the headquarters, armory, and training facility for the District of Columbia National Guard. In 1994, it became a venue for a broad range of sports and public events.
3.3 km · multipurpose arena in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 05Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Benning Ridge neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. The 22.5-acre cemetery contains approximately 36,000 burials, nearly all of them African Americans.
300 m · cemetery in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 06First Baptist Church of Deanwood
First Baptist Church of Deanwood is a Baptist church at 1008 45th Street in Northeast, Washington, D.C., in the Deanwood neighborhood. It was built in 1938, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
2.3 km · church in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 07John Philip Sousa Bridge
The John Philip Sousa Bridge, also known as the Sousa Bridge and the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, is a continuous steel plate girder bridge that carries Pennsylvania Avenue SE across the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The bridge is named for famous United States Marine Band conductor and composer John Philip Sousa, who grew up near the bridge's northwestern terminus.
3.5 km · bridge in Washington, D.C., in the United States · Wikipedia - 08Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library
Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library System. It was originally opened to the public in 1961.
2.5 km · public library in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 09Lincoln Memorial Cemetery
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery is a commercial, privately owned, historically Black cemetery located on the south side of Suitland Road in Suitland, Maryland. The cemetery is adjacent to Washington National Cemetery and across the street from the historically white Cedar Hill Cemetery.
3.1 km · cemetery in Suitland, Maryland · Wikipedia - 10Ethel Kennedy Bridge
The Ethel Kennedy Bridge is a beam bridge built in 2004 that carries Benning Road over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It is an eight-lane bridge with pedestrian lanes on both sides. A separate Washington Metro bridge carrying the Blue, Orange and Silver lines crosses over the bridge near its western terminus, and parallels the bridge on the north.
2.7 km · bridge in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
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Getting to Benning Ridge
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 9 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 40 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 45 km
- Stations
- Stadium–Armory, 3.4 km · Addison Road, 3.8 km · Benning Road, 900 m · Deanwood, 2.9 km · Minnesota Avenue, 1.9 km
- Baltimore → Benning Ridge54 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · $4.5–6
- Dulles → Benning Ridge45 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · $4–6
- Richmond → Benning Ridge154 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · $14–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Benning Ridge
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 Benning Ridge. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inOK, canoe is not a very practical way to visit Anacostia, but it is by far the most fun.
- Get inThe Anacostia River is easily navigable by canoe, and there are several places to launch: Anacostia Park, Bladensburg Park (in Bladensburg, Maryland), and the public boat ramp at Langston Golf Course in the east of Capitol Hill.
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Benning Ridge is 9 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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