Chevy Chase
Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, actor, and writer.
Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He became the breakout cast member in the first season of Saturday Night Live (1975–1976), where his recurring Weekend Update segment became a staple of the show. As both a performer and a writer on the series, he earned two Primetime Emmy Awards out of four nominations.
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Worth seeing in and around Chevy Chase
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.
- 01National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information is part of the National Library of Medicine, a branch of the National Institutes of Health. It is approved and funded by the government of the United States.
2.1 km · database arm of the US National Library of Medicine · Wikipedia - 02United States National Library of Medicine
The United States National Library of Medicine, operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health.
2.1 km · medical library operated by the U.S. federal government · Wikipedia - 03National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID's mission is to conduct basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.
2.9 km · US research institute for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases · Wikipedia - 04Washington D.C. Temple
The Washington D.C. Temple is the 16th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in Kensington, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., and the Capital Beltway, it became the church's first temple east of the Mississippi River since the original Nauvoo Temple, completed in 1846.
4 km · temple of the LDS church · Wikipedia - 05Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is a health science university and professional school of the U.S. federal government. The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home and abroad as uniformed health professionals, scientists and leaders; by conducting cutting-edge, military-relevant research; by leading the Military Health System in key functional and intellectual areas; and by providing operational support to units around the world.
2.3 km · health science university of the United States federal government · Wikipedia - 06Peter Muhlenberg Memorial
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, commonly known as the Peter Muhlenberg Memorial, is a public monument in Washington, D.C. It honors Peter Muhlenberg, a Lutheran minister, Continental Army general, Federalist Era American politician, and member of the prominent Muhlenberg family. The memorial is located in a one-acre park bounded by Connecticut Avenue, Ellicott Street, and 36th Street NW on the eastern edge of Washington's Wakefield neighborhood.
3.3 km · sculpture by Caroline M. Hufford and John Harbeson in Washington, DC, USA · Wikipedia - 07Washington College of Law
The American University Washington College of Law is the law school of American University, a private research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is accredited by the American Bar Association.
4 km · law school of American University · Wikipedia - 08Fort Bayard
Fort Bayard was an earthwork fort constructed in 1861 northwest of Tenleytown in the District of Columbia as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War. It never faced major opposition during the conflict and was decommissioned following the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
2.8 km · historic fort in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 09Fort Reno Park
Fort Reno Park is an urban park in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C. It is named after Fort Reno, one of the only locations in the District of Columbia to see combat during the American Civil War. The park was established in the 1920s to clear an African American neighborhood called Reno from the site, in what was becoming an affluent white suburban area.
3.2 km · park that contains the highest natural point in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 10National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, a member of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. The institute also conducts and supports research and research training related to disease prevention and health promotion; addresses special biomedical and behavioral problems associated with people who have communication impairments or disorders; and supports efforts to create devices which substitute for lost and impaired sensory and communication function.
3 km · member institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chevy Chase
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 15 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 32 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 42 km
- Stations
- Medical Center, 2.3 km · Friendship Heights, 2.3 km · Tenleytown–AU, 3.7 km
- Baltimore → Chevy Chase51 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · $4.5–6
- Richmond → Chevy Chase162 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · $15–21
- Philadelphia → Chevy Chase197 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · $17–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Chevy Chase
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 Chevy Chase. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inOn the weekends, you can take Ride On bus #29 to Glen Echo and start hiking north from there, but it is a significantly longer trek to Great Falls.
- Get inAlthough it is also possible to kayak or canoe the Potomac through the park, make sure you know what you're doing—the rapids are very dangerous, especially around Great Falls, and many people drown every year.
- Go nextAmong the most important are Harpers Ferry, just across the Potomac in West Virginia, and Antietam National Battlefield.
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Next door to Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase is 10 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Tenleytownneighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C.3.9 km
- Forest Glen Parkneighborhood in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States4 km
- American University Parkneighborhood in Washington, D.C.3.5 km
- Grant Road Historic Districthistoric district in Washington, D.C., United States3.8 km
- North Cleveland Parkneighborhood in Washington, D.C., United States3.6 km
- Tenley Circletraffic circle in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.3.9 km