College Park

Worth seeing in and around College Park

7 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

   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.

   9.3 km · private Catholic University in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Archdiocese 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.

   7 km · archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church serving Washington, D.C., and five counties of Maryland, United States · Wikipedia
3. 03
   The Globe Pequot Publishing Group

   The Globe Pequot Publishing Group is an American independent book publishing company founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers various regional and interest books in the trade books publishing.

   9.6 km · independent publishing house · Wikipedia
4. 04
   United States National Agricultural Library

   The United States National Agricultural Library is one of the world's largest agricultural research libraries, and serves as a national library of the United States and as the library of the United States Department of Agriculture. Located in Beltsville, Maryland, it is one of five national libraries of the United States.

   3 km · agricultural research library serving as a national library of the United States, and the library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture · Wikipedia
5. 05
   College Park–University of Maryland

   College Park–University of Maryland station is a Washington Metro and MARC station located in College Park, Maryland, United States, near the University of Maryland, College Park campus. It is served by the Green Line and Yellow Line on the Metro while also providing limited service on the MARC Camden Line.

   2 km · rail station in College Park, Maryland · Wikipedia
6. 06
   President 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.

   9.5 km · national monument in the United States · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Rock 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.

   9.2 km · garden cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to College Park

Airports

Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 19 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 30 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 46 km

Stations

College Park Airport, 1.8 km · Brookland–CUA, 9.1 km · Deanwood, 9.9 km · Fort Totten, 8.2 km · Hyattsville Crossing, 4.3 km

• Dulles → College Park

  44 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · $4.5–6
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• Richmond → College Park

  165 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · $15–20
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• Philadelphia → College Park

  187 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · $17–23
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