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Dunn Loring is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 9,464 as of the 2020 census. [1] This suburban area is bordered by Merrifield to the south, Vienna to the west, Tysons to the north, and Idylwood to the east. Dunn Loring is located within the Washington metropolitan area.
The first Fairfax courthouse was established in 1742 near present-day Tysons Corner, and is the namesake for Old Courthouse Road. [14] It intersects with Gallows Road, which today is a major commuter route, but at the time was the road where condemned prisoners were led to the gallows at the old courthouse. [15]
Dunn Loring station is a Washington Metro station in Fairfax County, Virginia, on the Orange Line. The station is in Merrifield , with a Vienna mailing address. The station is in the median of Interstate 66 at Gallows Road, just outside the Capital Beltway , and is accessed by a footbridge over the eastbound lanes.
US 29 and SR 237 cosigned in Merrifield. SR 237 begins at an intersection with SR 236 (Main Street) at the eastern edge of Fairfax.The state highway heads north as Pickett Road, a four-lane divided highway that parallels the eastern boundary of the city between a pair of shopping centers, an oil depot, a country club, and a park within which the highway crosses Accotink Creek.
In 2023, as part of the Transform 66 - Outside the Beltway Project, a multi-use trail was built along the right-of-way from Gallows Road, located just outside the Beltway in Dunn Loring to a point just west of Rt. 28 in Centreville. [56] The trail is actually four separate trails connected by a combination of on-road bike facilities and sidewalks.
Apartments along Gallows Road in Merrifield. Merrifield is located in eastern Fairfax County at (38.873144, −77.242994 It is bounded by I-66 on the north, the Capital Beltway on the east, Arlington Boulevard (U.S. Route 50) on the south, and Nutley Street (Virginia State Highway 243) on the west.
Vienna (/ v i ˈ ɛ n ə /) is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.As of the 2020 U.S. census, Vienna has a population of 16,473. [2] Significantly more people live in ZIP codes with the Vienna postal addresses (22180, 22181, and 22182), bordered approximately by Interstate 66 on the south, Interstate 495 on the east, Route 7 to the north, and Hunter Mill Road to the west, than ...
The Little River Turnpike was built between 1801 and 1806, and the road was a privately owned and operated toll road during the 19th century running from Alexandria to Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia. Toll houses were placed at five mile intervals along the road for collection of fees. The road was a paved ("macadamized") road 20 feet wide.