Mount Rainier

Worth seeing in and around Mount Rainier

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.

1. 01
   The Catholic University of America

   The Catholic University of America is a private Catholic research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of two pontifical universities of the Catholic Church in the United States – the only one that is not primarily a seminary – and the only institution of higher education founded by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

   3 km · private Catholic University in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Archdiocese of Washington

   The Archdiocese of Washington is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States. The archdiocese is home to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

   2.2 km · archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church serving Washington, D.C., and five counties of Maryland, United States · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Trinity Washington University

   Trinity Washington University is a private Catholic university in Washington, D.C., United States. It was founded as Trinity College by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as the nation's first Catholic liberal arts college for women.

   3.8 km · Catholic university in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
4. 04
   National 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.

   3.3 km · nonprofit organization that was created to sustain the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Pope John Paul II Cultural Center

   The Saint John Paul II National Shrine is a national shrine in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. It is a place of prayer for Catholics and welcomes people of all faiths.

   3.5 km · national shrine in Washington, D.C · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Kenilworth 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.

   3.9 km · park in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Mount 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.

   3.6 km · cemetery in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Fort Bunker Hill

   Fort Bunker Hill was one of seven temporary earthwork forts of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army. From west to east, the forts were: Fort Slocum, Fort Totten, Fort Slemmer, Fort Bunker Hill, Fort Saratoga, Fort Thayer and Fort Lincoln.

   2.1 km · historical fort in Washington, D.C., United States · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Columbian Harmony Cemetery

   Columbian Harmony Cemetery was an African-American cemetery that formerly existed at 9th Street NE and Rhode Island Avenue NE in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Constructed in 1859, it was the successor to the smaller Harmoneon Cemetery in downtown Washington.

   3.4 km · cemetery in Washington, D.C. · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Hecht Company Warehouse

    The Hecht Company Warehouse in Washington, D.C. is a Streamline Moderne style building. Designed by engineer Gilbert V. Steel of the New York engineering firm Abbott and Merkt, and prominently located on New York Avenue in Ivy City, it served as the central warehouse for The Hecht Company from its construction in 1937 and expansion in 1948.

    3.5 km · building in Washington, D.C., United States of America · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mount Rainier

Airports

Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 12 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 37 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 42 km

Stations

Brookland–CUA, 2.7 km · Hyattsville Crossing, 2.7 km · Fort Totten, 3.4 km · West Hyattsville, 1.6 km · Rhode Island Avenue–Brentwood, 3.5 km

• Dulles → Mount Rainier

  42 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · $4–6
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• Richmond → Mount Rainier

  160 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · $14–20
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• Philadelphia → Mount Rainier

  191 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · $17–24
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