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Herndon

Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

Herndon
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The place

Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Located in Northern Virginia, it is part of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. In 2020, the population at the census was 24,655, which makes it the largest of three incorporated towns in the county.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Herndon

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
    ADAMS

    All Dulles Area Muslim Society is one of the largest mosques in the United States, located in Sterling, VA and serving 5000 Muslim families. ADAMS offers a wide variety of services.

    4 km · mosque and religious center in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Divine Mercy University

    Divine Mercy University is a private Catholic graduate university of psychology and counseling located in Sterling, Virginia.

    4.3 km · University of psychology in Sterling, Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Frying Pan Farm Park

    Frying Pan Farm Park is a park located in Fairfax County, Virginia. It has a variety of attractions of both a historic and recreational nature.

    4.3 km · park in Virginia, United States of America, United States of America · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Frying Pan Meetinghouse

    The Frying Pan Meetinghouse or Frying Pan Spring Meeting House) is a historic church building within Frying Pan Farm Park in Floris, Virginia. It was built in 1791 as a church building.

    4.1 km · church building in Virginia, United States of America · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of the Epiphany

    The Church of the Epiphany is an Anglican church located in Chantilly, Virginia. It emphasizes "Encountering God through beautiful worship and believing prayer, building a multigenerational congregation that loves children and families and equipping every member to share the good news of Jesus Christ." Notable ministries and activities include a yearly free "Sports Camp" in Herndon for elementary-age students, bi-weekly worship and other ministry activities at the Arbor Terrace memory care home in Chantilly, and monthly donations of food that go home with students in need at Coates Elementary School in Herndon.

    2.9 km · church in Centerview Drive Chantilly VA , United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Dranesville Tavern

    The Dranesville Tavern that was located in Dranesville, Virginia dates from 1823. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

    4.7 km · historic commercial building in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia

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.

Go there

Getting to Herndon

Airports
Washington Dulles (IAD), 7 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 33 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 66 km
Stations
Washington Dulles International Airport, 5.4 km · Wiehle–Reston East, 4.9 km · Innovation Center, 3.4 km · Reston Town Center, 3.2 km · Dulles International Airport Main Terminal, 5.5 km
  • Baltimore → Herndon
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · $7–10
  • Richmond → Herndon
    158 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · $14–20
  • Philadelphia → Herndon
    220 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · $20–28
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Herndon

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundReston Paths is an extensive bike/walking path system.

From Wikivoyage: Reston, 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

    407 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    908 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,493 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,575 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,589 km

If you know how people move in Herndon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Herndon

Herndon is 32 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.