Tenleytown
Tenleytown is a historic neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.
Tenleytown is a historic neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Tenleytown
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.
- 01
- 02Orthodox Church in America
Russian Orthodox church in North America, granted autocephaly in 1970 by the Patriarchate of Moscow
2.5 km · Wikipedia - 03American University
Private liberal arts and research-based university in Washington, D.C., USA
1.2 km · Wikipedia - 04United States Naval Observatory
Scientific agency and observatory in Washington, D.C., United States
2.9 km · Wikipedia - 05
- 06Dumbarton Oaks
Research institution concerning Byzantine and Pre-Columbian studies and garden and landscape studies
3.8 km · Wikipedia - 07
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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.
Getting to Tenleytown
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 11 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 33 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 44 km
- Stations
- Cleveland Park, 2.1 km · Woodley Park, 3.3 km · Tenleytown–AU, 200 m · Friendship Heights, 1.7 km · Van Ness–UDC, 1.3 km
- Baltimore → Tenleytown56 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · $5–7
- Richmond → Tenleytown159 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · $14–19
- Philadelphia → Tenleytown199 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · $18–24
- 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 Tenleytown
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 Tenleytown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPotomac Riverboat Company operates water taxis from Alexandria to Georgetown ($21 one-way) with narrated tours of the monuments.
From Wikivoyage: Washington, D.C./Georgetown, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Tenleytown
Tenleytown is 7 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Northwestnorthwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C.; largest of the city's four quadrants2.6 km
- Wesley Heightsneighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States1.8 km
- Foxhallneighborhood in Washington D.C.3 km
- Embassy RowWashington, D.C. neighborhood highly concentrated with international embassies3.4 km
- Glover Parkneighborhood in Washington D.C.2.6 km
- Forest Hillsneighborhood in Washington, DC1.9 km