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Foggy Bottom

Foggy Bottom is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States, located in the city's northwest quadrant.

Foggy Bottom
Foggy Bottom · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Foggy Bottom is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States, located in the city's northwest quadrant. It stretches west of the White House towards the Potomac River, north of the National Mall, east of Georgetown, south of the West End neighborhood and west of Downtown.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Foggy Bottom

Airports
Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 5 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 36 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 45 km
  • Baltimore → Foggy Bottom
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · $5–7
  • Richmond → Foggy Bottom
    154 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · $14–19
  • Philadelphia → Foggy Bottom
    201 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · $18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Foggy Bottom

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 Foggy Bottom. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPotomac Riverboat Company operates water taxis from Alexandria to Georgetown ($21 one-way) with narrated tours of the monuments.

From Wikivoyage: Washington, D.C./Georgetown, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    386 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    892 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,500 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,567 km
  5. 05
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,573 km

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Around it

Next door to Foggy Bottom

Foggy Bottom is 1 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.