Fairmount Heights
Fairmount Heights is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.

Fairmount Heights is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.
Per the 2020 census, the population was 1,528. The town was formally incorporated in 1935, making the town the second oldest African-American-majority municipality in Prince George's County. The town is composed of six subdivisions: Fairmount Heights (1900), Waterford (1907), Mount Weissner (1909), North Fairmount Heights (1910), West Fairmount Heights (1911) and Sylvan Vista (1923).
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Worth seeing in and around Fairmount Heights
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.
- 01Northwest Stadium
Northwest Stadium is a stadium near Landover, Maryland, in the census-designated place of Summerfield 2.5 miles east of Washington, D.C. It is the home venue of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League. The stadium opened in 1997 as Jack Kent Cooke Stadium and was known as FedExField from 1999 until 2024.
4.4 km · stadium located in Maryland, U.S. · Wikipedia - 02Congressional Cemetery
The Congressional Cemetery, officially Washington Parish Burial Ground, is a historic and active cemetery located at 1801 E Street in Washington, D.C., United States, in the Hill East neighborhood on the west bank of the Anacostia River. It is the only American "cemetery of national memory" founded before the Civil War.
5.9 km · cemetery in Washington, DC · Wikipedia - 03National 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.
4.9 km · nonprofit organization that was created to sustain the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum · Wikipedia - 04Anacostia Park
Anacostia Park is operated by the United States National Park Service. It is one of Washington, D.C.'s largest and most important recreation areas, with over 1200 acres at multiple sites.
5.4 km · park in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 05Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens is a National Park Service site located in the north eastern corner of Washington, D.C., near the Maryland state border. Nestled near the banks of the Anacostia River and directly west of the Baltimore–Washington Parkway, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens preserves a plethora of rare waterlilies and lotuses in the cultivated ponds near the river.
3.1 km · park in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia - 06D.C. Armory
The D.C. Armory is a mixed armory and 10,000-seat arena in Washington, D.C. Managed by the Events DC, the Armory opened in 1941, as the headquarters, armory, and training facility for the District of Columbia National Guard. In 1994, it became a venue for a broad range of sports and public events.
5.5 km · multipurpose arena in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 07Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Benning Ridge neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. The 22.5-acre cemetery contains approximately 36,000 burials, nearly all of them African Americans.
2.8 km · cemetery in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 08Mount Olivet Cemetery
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 1300 Bladensburg Road, NE in Washington, D.C. It is maintained by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. The largest Catholic burial ground in the District of Columbia, it was one of the first in the city to be racially integrated.
5.7 km · cemetery in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 09Fort Dupont Park
Fort Dupont Park is a 376-acre wooded park under the management of the National Park Service located in Washington, DC. The name of the park comes from the old Civil War earthwork fort that lies within the park. The fort was one of several designed to defend Washington from a Confederate attack during the Civil War.
4.1 km · park in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia - 10First Baptist Church of Deanwood
First Baptist Church of Deanwood is a Baptist church at 1008 45th Street in Northeast, Washington, D.C., in the Deanwood neighborhood. It was built in 1938, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
2 km · church in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fairmount Heights
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 12 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 37 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 47 km
- Stations
- Stadium–Armory, 5.6 km · Addison Road, 2.4 km · Benning Road, 2.4 km · Deanwood, 1.9 km · Morgan Boulevard, 4.1 km
- Dulles → Fairmount Heights46 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · $4.5–6
- Richmond → Fairmount Heights157 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · $14–20
- Philadelphia → Fairmount Heights191 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · $17–23
- 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 Fairmount Heights
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 Fairmount Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inOK, canoe is not a very practical way to visit Anacostia, but it is by far the most fun.
- Get inThe Anacostia River is easily navigable by canoe, and there are several places to launch: Anacostia Park, Bladensburg Park (in Bladensburg, Maryland), and the public boat ramp at Langston Golf Course in the east of Capitol Hill.
From Wikivoyage: Washington, D.C./Anacostia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Fairmount Heights is 11 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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