Brookland
Worth seeing in and around Brookland
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.
- 01Howard University
Howard University is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
3.3 km · university in Washington D.C. · Wikipedia - 02Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University is a private federally chartered university in Washington, D.C., for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children.
3 km · American university providing education for deaf and hard of hearing students · Wikipedia - 03The Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America is a private Catholic research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of two pontifical universities of the Catholic Church in the United States – the only one that is not primarily a seminary – and the only institution of higher education founded by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
1.3 km · private Catholic University in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 04Archdiocese of Washington
The Archdiocese of Washington is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States. The archdiocese is home to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
2.2 km · archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church serving Washington, D.C., and five counties of Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 05Trinity Washington University
Trinity Washington University is a private Catholic university in Washington, D.C., United States. It was founded as Trinity College by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as the nation's first Catholic liberal arts college for women.
1.9 km · Catholic university in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 06President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home
President Lincoln's Cottage is a historic home used by Abraham Lincoln on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, known today as the Armed Forces Retirement Home, near the Petworth neighborhood in Washington, D.C. In 2000 it was designated a national monument called President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument. President Abraham Lincoln and his family resided seasonally on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home to escape the heat and political pressure of downtown Washington, as did President James Buchanan before him.
2.6 km · national monument in the United States · Wikipedia - 07National Bonsai Foundation
The National Bonsai Foundation is a nonprofit organization that was created to sustain the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum. NBF also helps the United States National Arboretum showcase the arts of bonsai and penjing to the general public.
2.6 km · nonprofit organization that was created to sustain the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum · Wikipedia - 08Rock Creek Cemetery
Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre cemetery in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington.
3 km · garden cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 09Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
The Saint John Paul II National Shrine is a national shrine in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. It is a place of prayer for Catholics and welcomes people of all faiths.
1.9 km · national shrine in Washington, D.C · Wikipedia - 10Washington Coliseum
The Uline Arena, later renamed the Washington Coliseum, was an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. located at 1132, 1140, and 1146 3rd Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C. It was the site of one of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's inaugural balls in 1953, the first concert by the Beatles in the United States in 1964, and several other memorable moments in sports, show business, politics and in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It had a capacity of over 8,000 people and was a major event space in Washington until the early 1970s.
3.5 km · indoor arena in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
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Getting to Brookland
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 10 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 38 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 41 km
- Stations
- NoMa–Gallaudet University, 3.4 km · Brookland–CUA, 900 m · Shaw–Howard University, 4 km · Fort Totten, 2.6 km · West Hyattsville, 2.8 km
- Dulles → Brookland40 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · $4–6
- Richmond → Brookland159 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · $14–20
- Philadelphia → Brookland193 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · $17–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Brookland
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 Brookland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inincluding stops in South Bend, Elkhart, Waterloo, Toledo, Sandusky, Elyria, Cleveland, Alliance, Pittsburgh, Connellsville, Cumberland, Martinsburg, Harpers Ferry, and Rockville.
- Get inMARC also provides service on the Brunswick line towards western Maryland through the suburbs of Silver Spring, Kensington, Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Germantown, on the way out to Frederick and on to Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg, West Virginia on Monday through Friday.
- Get aroundFor an ambitious all-day ride, try branching north at Leesburg, crossing the Potomac River on White's Ferry (inactive as of Nov 2024), and riding on the C&O Canal towpath to return to D.C.
- Get aroundPedicabs (tricycle rickshaws), commonly found on the National Mall, are regulated, insured, and offer tours or pre-arranged rides.
- Go nextFrom spring to fall, you can take a water taxi from the Inner Harbor to historic Fort McHenry.
From Wikivoyage: Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Brookland
Brookland is 6 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Colmar Manortown in Maryland, United States3.2 km
- District of Columbiafederal district of the United States of America, containing the capital city of the United States, Washington2.8 km
- Shawneighborhood in Washington, D.C.4 km
- Mount St. Sepulchre Franciscan Monasterythe religious community, a representative of the Custody of the Holy Land500 m