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Shaw
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Getting to Shaw
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 7 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 38 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 42 km
- Baltimore → Shaw55 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · $5–7
- Richmond → Shaw156 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $14–19
- Philadelphia → Shaw197 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · $17–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Shaw. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
What Wikivoyage says about moving around
- Get inincluding stops in South Bend, Elkhart, Waterloo, Toledo, Sandusky, Elyria, Cleveland, Alliance, Pittsburgh, Connellsville, Cumberland, Martinsburg, Harpers Ferry, and Rockville.
- Get inMARC also provides service on the Brunswick line towards western Maryland through the suburbs of Silver Spring, Kensington, Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Germantown, on the way out to Frederick and on to Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg, West Virginia on Monday through Friday.
- Get aroundFor an ambitious all-day ride, try branching north at Leesburg, crossing the Potomac River on White's Ferry (inactive as of Nov 2024), and riding on the C&O Canal towpath to return to D.C.
- Get aroundPedicabs (tricycle rickshaws), commonly found on the National Mall, are regulated, insured, and offer tours or pre-arranged rides.
- Go nextFrom spring to fall, you can take a water taxi from the Inner Harbor to historic Fort McHenry.
From Wikivoyage: Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Shaw is 2 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.