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Woodley Park

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Worth seeing in and around Woodley Park

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
    Georgetown University

    Private university in Washington, D.C., United States

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    George Washington University

    Private university in Washington, D.C., USA

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Washington National Cathedral

    Neo-Gothic cathedral located in Washington, D.C.

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Howard University

    University in Washington D.C.

    3.2 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Orthodox Church in America

    Russian Orthodox church in North America, granted autocephaly in 1970 by the Patriarchate of Moscow

    1.2 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Museum of Women in the Arts

    Art museum in Washington, D.C., United States

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    American University

    Private liberal arts and research-based university in Washington, D.C., USA

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    United States Naval Observatory

    Scientific agency and observatory in Washington, D.C., United States

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Resolute desk

    Desk in the White House

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    National Zoological Park

    Zoological park in Washington, D.C., United States

    500 m · 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 Woodley Park

Airports
Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 9 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 35 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 43 km
  • Baltimore → Woodley Park
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · $5–7
  • Richmond → Woodley Park
    157 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · $14–19
  • Philadelphia → Woodley Park
    198 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · $18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Woodley Park

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 Woodley Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    385 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    890 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,503 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,571 km
  5. 05
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,576 km

If you know how people move in Woodley Park – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Woodley Park

Woodley Park is 4 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Georgetownneighborhood and historic district in Washington, D.C., United States2.7 km
  • Foggy Bottomlate 18th and 19th-century neighborhood in Washington, D.C.3.4 km
  • Dupont Circleneighborhood in Washington, D.C.2.4 km
  • Adams Morganneighborhood in Washington, D.C.1.3 km