Not really a state, but I just went to DC back in like June. I highly recommend going there. If you’re going to go then go for a full week minimum.
Get a hotel across the street or right next to a subway station. So you can walk out the front door and go right onto the subway and that will take you right down to the national mall. It will save you so much time. It will also save you a lot of money doing that.
If you’re going to go to the air space Museum on the national Mall, whatever your ticket says, show up five minutes later. Not earlier , show up later. So for example, if your ticket says 11 AM, then show up at 11:05 or possibly even 11:08. You will more or less just walk right through the doors. There might be some line there, but you won’t be outside very long. There’s absolutely zero reason to show up early. You will only waste your time by showing up early.
The same goes for the natural history museum, and pretty much any other museum there. Not sure about the Holocaust Museum. I think on that we showed up maybe one minute early, but we were inside pretty fast.
There are two air and space museums one on the national Mall one of the west of DC. The one on the national mall has the smaller historical effects. The one to the west of DC has the large planes such as space shuttle, and the SR 71 Blackbird.
Figure out where your legislator office is at. Both the Senate and the house. Because if you go to their private office, they will give you a pass intothe capital building to see the house and the Senate. Without those passes, you can get into the visitor center of the capital but you won’t get to the house or Senate side. The pass is free.
You can take a tour of the capital I don’t remember if that cost money or not but I do know you have to give a lot of advance notice to get those full tours.
Go see the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam memorial and the memorial for the Korean war. Do it during the day but you need to see it at night All three of them at night. When I say night I mean 10 pm or 10:30 or even 11pm. It is absolutely amazing how they have that place lit up. To walk the Korean war veterans memorial at night is something you will not forget. That whole area is , I’m not even sure what the word is, Amazing is the only word I can think of, but I know there’s a better word.
The Hamilton has some excellent food. You might wanna place reservations to get in. We got lucky and only had a couple of minute wait.
On the capital grounds there is a large golf cart that will take you from one side of the grounds to the other. It’s free. You just go out front of the visitor center and there are people standing out there by a white tent that can call one for you. Saves you a lot of walking and those grounds are huge.
Speaking of large everything in that city is large, so bring some comfortable shoes for walking you’re gonna need them.
Go to the World War I memorial out there not a lot of people go there. But it is definitely something you should see.
As someone who also visited DC recently, I will say that getting a three day Metro pass made using the subway super convenient, and having a map of the Metro system on my phone made it even more convenient. There are standalone apps available, but both Apple maps & Google maps ought to be able to show you the different lines & stations.
Not really a state, but I just went to DC back in like June. I highly recommend going there. If you’re going to go then go for a full week minimum.
Get a hotel across the street or right next to a subway station. So you can walk out the front door and go right onto the subway and that will take you right down to the national mall. It will save you so much time. It will also save you a lot of money doing that.
If you’re going to go to the air space Museum on the national Mall, whatever your ticket says, show up five minutes later. Not earlier , show up later. So for example, if your ticket says 11 AM, then show up at 11:05 or possibly even 11:08. You will more or less just walk right through the doors. There might be some line there, but you won’t be outside very long. There’s absolutely zero reason to show up early. You will only waste your time by showing up early.
The same goes for the natural history museum, and pretty much any other museum there. Not sure about the Holocaust Museum. I think on that we showed up maybe one minute early, but we were inside pretty fast.
There are two air and space museums one on the national Mall one of the west of DC. The one on the national mall has the smaller historical effects. The one to the west of DC has the large planes such as space shuttle, and the SR 71 Blackbird.
Figure out where your legislator office is at. Both the Senate and the house. Because if you go to their private office, they will give you a pass intothe capital building to see the house and the Senate. Without those passes, you can get into the visitor center of the capital but you won’t get to the house or Senate side. The pass is free.
You can take a tour of the capital I don’t remember if that cost money or not but I do know you have to give a lot of advance notice to get those full tours.
Go see the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam memorial and the memorial for the Korean war. Do it during the day but you need to see it at night All three of them at night. When I say night I mean 10 pm or 10:30 or even 11pm. It is absolutely amazing how they have that place lit up. To walk the Korean war veterans memorial at night is something you will not forget. That whole area is , I’m not even sure what the word is, Amazing is the only word I can think of, but I know there’s a better word.
The Hamilton has some excellent food. You might wanna place reservations to get in. We got lucky and only had a couple of minute wait.
On the capital grounds there is a large golf cart that will take you from one side of the grounds to the other. It’s free. You just go out front of the visitor center and there are people standing out there by a white tent that can call one for you. Saves you a lot of walking and those grounds are huge.
Speaking of large everything in that city is large, so bring some comfortable shoes for walking you’re gonna need them.
Go to the World War I memorial out there not a lot of people go there. But it is definitely something you should see.
As someone who also visited DC recently, I will say that getting a three day Metro pass made using the subway super convenient, and having a map of the Metro system on my phone made it even more convenient. There are standalone apps available, but both Apple maps & Google maps ought to be able to show you the different lines & stations.
That’s what I used (apple maps)
Good tips!