Glover Park
Glover Park is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., about a half mile north of Georgetown and just west of the United States Naval Observatory and Number One Observatory Circle.
Glover Park is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., about a half mile north of Georgetown and just west of the United States Naval Observatory and Number One Observatory Circle. Every morning and evening, Glover Park residents can hear the Naval Observatory play the sounding of colors synchronized to the nation's Master Clock. It is named after Charles Carroll Glover.
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Worth seeing in and around Glover Park
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.
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- 04Orthodox Church in America
Russian Orthodox church in North America, granted autocephaly in 1970 by the Patriarchate of Moscow
600 m · Wikipedia - 05American University
Private liberal arts and research-based university in Washington, D.C., USA
1.9 km · Wikipedia - 06United States Naval Observatory
Scientific agency and observatory in Washington, D.C., United States
700 m · Wikipedia - 07Marine Corps War Memorial
Monument consisting of a large sculptural group on a circular base in Arlington, Virginia, United States
3.6 km · Wikipedia - 08
- 09Dumbarton Oaks
Research institution concerning Byzantine and Pre-Columbian studies and garden and landscape studies
1.4 km · Wikipedia - 10
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Glover Park
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 8 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 33 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 45 km
- Stations
- Foggy Bottom–GWU, 3.2 km · Farragut North station, 3.7 km
- Baltimore → Glover Park57 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · $5–7
- Richmond → Glover Park156 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · $14–19
- Philadelphia → Glover Park200 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · $18–25
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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 Glover Park
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 Glover Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Glover Park
Glover Park is 5 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Georgetownneighborhood and historic district in Washington, D.C., United States2.2 km
- Foggy Bottomlate 18th and 19th-century neighborhood in Washington, D.C.3.5 km
- Dupont Circleneighborhood in Washington, D.C.3.1 km
- Adams Morganneighborhood in Washington, D.C.2.8 km
- Northwestnorthwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C.; largest of the city's four quadrants2.5 km
- West Endneighborhood in Washington D.C.2.8 km