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Sterling

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sterling

One place 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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    Divine Mercy University

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

    3 km · University of psychology in Sterling, 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.

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Getting to Sterling

Airports
Washington Dulles (IAD), 7 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 38 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 68 km
Stations
Loudoun Gateway, 3.2 km
  • Baltimore → Sterling
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h · $8–11
  • Richmond → Sterling
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · $14–20
  • Philadelphia → Sterling
    221 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · $21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sterling

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 Sterling. 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

    409 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

    2,495 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,577 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,594 km

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Next door to Sterling

Sterling is 36 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.