Lorton
Lorton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

Lorton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 20,072 as of the 2020 census.
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Getting to Lorton
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 24 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 33 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 72 km
- Baltimore → Lorton84 km · quickest by road, 2h · $7–10
- Richmond → Lorton130 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · $11–16
- Philadelphia → Lorton225 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · $20–28
- 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 Lorton
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 Lorton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAdditionally, walking paths in the built-up areas may not be the most beautiful, but a day trip walking around Lake Accotink will help clear out the concrete blahs.
From Wikivoyage: Springfield (Virginia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-09.
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Next door to Lorton
Lorton is 27 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.