Fairfax

Worth seeing in and around Fairfax

6 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
   Patriot Center

   EagleBank Arena is an indoor arena on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, United States. Opened 41 years ago in 1985, it is the home of Patriot men's & women's basketball, and is a venue for concerts and family shows, with 17,000 square feet of space.

   2.2 km · arena · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Flint Hill School

   Flint Hill School, founded in 1956, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school, in Oakton, Virginia, serving grades JK–12. The school has separate upper and lower school campuses about a mile apart in Fairfax County, approximately 20 miles from Washington, D.C. In 2025, Niche ranked Flint Hill School 9 out of 2,489 private schools in the United States, making it the best in Virginia.

   2.9 km · independent, day, college-preparatory school in Oakton, Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Historic Blenheim

   Historic Blenheim is a c. 1859 brick farm house designed in the Greek Revival style and located in City of Fairfax, Virginia.

   1.5 km · building in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St. Mary of Sorrows

   St. Mary of the Sorrows is a Catholic parish located in Fairfax, Virginia.

   3.7 km · church in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Truro Church

   Truro Anglican Church is an Anglican church in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Founded in the eighteenth century, the parish has played a significant role in the Anglican tradition in Northern Virginia. In 2006, the congregation voted to depart from The Episcopal Church amid longstanding theological and doctrinal disputes, including disagreements over the authority of Scripture, core Christian doctrines, and matters of church governance.

   300 m · church in Virginia USA, United States · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering

   The Volgenau School of Engineering is part of the George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing. Based in the Fairfax campus of George Mason University in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Volgenau School offers programs at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels.

   2.1 km · Constitutent college of George Mason University · Wikipedia

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Getting to Fairfax

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Washington Dulles (IAD), 17 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 23 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 66 km

• Baltimore → Fairfax

  78 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · $7–10
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• Richmond → Fairfax

  144 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · $13–17
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• Philadelphia → Fairfax

  221 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · $20–27
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