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George Washington Memorial Parkway

The George Washington Memorial Parkway, colloquially the G.W. Parkway, is a 25-mile-long limited-access parkway that runs along the south bank of the from , northwest to , United States, and is maintained by the National Park Service.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: 7,142-acre parkway in Virginia and the District of Columbia in the United States, that is maintained by the National Park Service
  • Also known as: “G. W. Pkwy.”, “G.W. Parkway”, “G.W. Pkwy.”, “George Washington Memorial Parkway (Maryland)”, “George Washington Memorial Parkway, VA”, “George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia”, “George Washington Parkway”, “Gw parkway”, “GWMP”, “Mount Vernon Highway”, “Mount Vernon Memorial Highway”, “Mt. Vernon Highway”, “Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway”, “Route 90005 (Virginia)”, “SR 90005 (VA)”, “State Route 90005”, “State Route 90005 (Virginia)”, “VA 90005”, “VA-90005”, “Virginia Route 90005”, “Virginia State Highway 90005”, and “Virginia State Route 90005”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Potomac Yard station and The Birchmere.

Metro station
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is a Washington Metro station in , United States. It is operated by the , serving both the Blue and Yellow Lines, and opened on May 19, 2023.

Theater building
Photo: Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a concert hall in , that features rock, blues, bluegrass, country, folk, jazz, ethnic, and comedic performers. Its main room seats 500 and provides dinner service, making for an intimate space, with tables only a few feet away from the stage.

Historic site
Photo: Rolfmueller, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was an 18th- and 19th-century plantation owned by the prominent Alexander, Custis, Stuart, and Hunter families and worked at times by slaves and domesticated animals.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Potomac Yard and Crystal City.

Suburb
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
is a neighborhood in that straddles southeastern and northeastern , located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Washington Metro Blue Line /Yellow Line tracks, or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, depending on the definition used.

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is the secondary "downtown" area of , after the Rosslyn–Ballston Corridor. This article also includes the nearby neighborhoods of Pentagon City, Arlington Ridge, and Aurora Highlands.

Neighborhood
is an area in encompassing parts of the and neighborhoods of and the neighborhood in the city of . is situated 1½ miles north of George Washington Memorial Parkway.

George Washington Memorial Parkway

Latitude
38.83667° or 38° 50′ 12″ north
Longitude
-77.04556° or 77° 2′ 44″ west
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Named after
George Washington
Open location code
87C4RXP3+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 356559714
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
4760693
Wiki­data ID
Q717925
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Slovenian—“George Washington Memorial Parkway” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “George Washington Memorial Parkway”
  • Cebuano: “George Washington Memorial Parkway”
  • Chinese: “乔治·华盛顿纪念公路”
  • Chinese: “喬治·華盛頓紀念公路”
  • Dutch: “George Washington Memorial Parkway”
  • French: “George Washington Memorial Parkway”
  • German: “George Washington Memorial Parkway”
  • Japanese: “GWMP”
  • Japanese: “SR 90005 (VA)”
  • Japanese: “VA-90005”
  • Japanese: “ジョージ・ワシントン・メモリアル・パークウェイ”
  • Japanese: “ジョージ・ワシントン記念パークウェイ”
  • Japanese: “マウント・バーノン記念ハイウェイ”
  • Japanese: “州道90005号線”
  • Polish: “George Washington Memorial Parkway”
  • Slovenian: “George Washington Memorial Parkway”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include North Pavilion and South Pavilion.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “George Washington Memorial Parkway”. Photo: Yoichi Okamoto, Public domain.