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Map of the Trail. The Mount Vernon Trail (MVT) is an 18-mile (29 km) long shared use path that travels along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia between Rosslyn and George Washington's home at Mount Vernon.
[8] 0.6 miles (1.0 km) past that intersection, the W&OD Trail intersects the Custis Trail, a 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long paved shared use path that travels along Interstate 66 (I-66) (the Custis Memorial Parkway) to Rosslyn and which provides access to Washington, D.C. and the northern end of the Mount Vernon Trail. [8] [14]
The paved shared use 18.5-mile (29.8 km) Mount Vernon Trail and a 9.6-mile (15.4 km) gravel trail in and around Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia, mostly alongside the George Washington Memorial Parkway. [8] [9] The 23-mile (37 km) Alexandria Heritage Trail in Alexandria, Virginia. A 27-mile (43 km) biking trail in Prince George's County ...
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Downtown Heritage Trail; Washington, DC [3] Greater U Street Heritage Trail; Washington, DC [4] Metropolitan Branch Trail, 8 miles (13 km); Union Station, DC to Silver Spring, Maryland [5] Mount Vernon Trail, 18 miles (29 km); Mount Vernon Estate, DC to Theodore Roosevelt National Island, DC [6] Rock Creek Trails, 3.5 miles (5.6 km); Washington ...
By the 1920s, 200,000 people a year were visiting Mount Vernon. [9] In the 1880s, officials in Alexandria, Virginia, attempted to boost local commerce by advocating for a "national road" to Mount Vernon. They formed the Mount Vernon Avenue Association in September 1887, to promote this idea. [10] Congress appropriated $10,000 for a survey in 1889.
Dyke Marsh and the Mount Vernon Trail seen from the G.W. Parkway. Dyke Marsh is just east of the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Mount Vernon Trail. Thousands of bicyclists, walkers, and runners go through Dyke Marsh on a weekly basis on the Mount Vernon Trail. Just off of the trail, there is a sitting area on a boardwalk over the marsh.
The Four Mile Run Trail is a 7-mile long, paved shared use path in Arlington County and Falls Church. It runs along Four Mile Run from Benjamin Banneker Park in Falls Church [1] [2] to the Mount Vernon Trail near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, where Four Mile Run empties into the Potomac River.