Brightwood

Worth seeing in and around Brightwood

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.

1. 01
   The Catholic University of America

   Private Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

   4 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Archdiocese of Washington

   Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church serving Washington, D.C., and five counties of Maryland, United States

   3.8 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   University of the District of Columbia

   Public university in Washington, D.C.

   3.8 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Rock Creek Park

   Urban park in Washington, D.C.

   2.2 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

   Decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., USA

   2.9 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home

   National monument in the United States

   2.6 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Rock Creek Cemetery

   Garden cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States

   1.9 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Pope John Paul II Cultural Center

   National shrine in Washington, D.C

   3.3 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center

   Tennis venue in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.

   1.2 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Adas Israel Congregation

    Largest Conservative synagogue in Washington, D.C.

    3.7 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Brightwood

Airports

Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 12 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 37 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 39 km

Stations

Cleveland Park, 3.9 km · Columbia Heights, 3.6 km · Fort Totten, 2.4 km · Silver Spring, 3.6 km · Van Ness–UDC, 3.6 km

• Richmond → Brightwood

  161 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · $14–19
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• Philadelphia → Brightwood

  194 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · $17–24
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• Norfolk → Brightwood

  244 km · quickest by road, 5h 3m · $26–35
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