A few weeks ago we took our longest bike ride around the area to date. We started out heading from our place to hop on the Mt. Vernon Trail over by the airport. We rode the trail all the way to it’s northern terminus at Roosevelt Island near Georgetown. We then proceeded across the river using the Key Bridge and caught the C&O trail through the Georgetown waterfront. Following along the park trail near the Potomac river we passed by the Watergate and some of the monuments. These pictures were taken near that area.
Near the Lincoln Memorial we hopped back to the Virginia side of the river using the Memorial Bridge and took the Mt. Vernon trail back home. There are a couple of neat spots along this trip. There is a park that the trail runs through at the north end of the airport that a lot of people like to watch planes take off from. They actually pass just a few hundred feet directly overhead so it’s quite the view. There is also a long stretch of raised wooden trail through a waterfowl sanctuary that has a ton of overhead tree cover.
As we take more of these bike treks I plan on snapping more pictures to share.