Great Falls Tavern
Great Falls Tavern is a historic building in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the United States. Located at mile 14.3 along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath, it is today used by the National Park Service as one of its five visitor centers in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
- Opening hours: Wednesday—Sunday 9:00 AM—4:30 PM
- Type: Tourism office
- Description: historic tavern serves as the main C&O Canal National Historical Park visitor center
- Also known as: “Great Falls Tavern and Museum” and “Great Falls Tavern Visitor Center”
- Historically known as: “Crommelin House”
- Address: 11710 MacArthur Boulevard, Potomac, MD 20854
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and Lock 19.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the District of Columbia, West Virginia and Maryland. It lies in the Potomac River Valley between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland.
Olmsted Island
Islet
Olmsted Island is a small island in the middle of the Potomac River in the U.S. state of Maryland, near Great Falls which is a part of C & O Canal National Historical Park, located across the river from Great Falls Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Falls and Potomac.
Great Falls
Potomac
Potomac is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 47,018.Carderock
Locality
Carderock is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, along the Potomac River. It is located in the southern part of the Potomac census-designated place and western part of the Bethesda postal area. Carderock is situated 3½ miles southeast of Great Falls Tavern.
Great Falls Tavern
- Categories: historic house museum, information, building, and tourism
- Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.0002° or 39° 0′ 1″ north
Longitude
-77.24814° or 77° 14′ 53″ west
Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)
Open location code
87F42Q22+3P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=information
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Great Falls Tavern” goes by many names.
- French: “Great Falls Tavern”
- German: “Great Falls Tavern”
- Japanese: “グレート・フォールズ・タヴァーン”
- Japanese: “グレイト・フォールズ・タヴァーン”
- Spanish: “Great Falls Tavern”
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