Washington DC -- Fall '00 Field Trip
Department of Landscape Architecture
September 21-24                 Sign-up ASAP -- Space on the trip is first come, first served  

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Are you Ready for Some Field Trip?!?!

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SAMPLES OF WHAT YOU MIGHT SEE AND DO IN THE CAPITAL CITY
Including: Alexandria, VA (just a Metro ride away); Reston, VA; The Mall and Monuments

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SCHEDULE IS NOT IN ANY WAY EVEN CLOSE TO BEING FINALIZED 

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Thursday, September 21st

7:40 Bathroom stop
11:00 Stop at the Kentlands, Gaithersburg, MD
2:00 Visit Reston, VA

4:30 Visit L'Enfant Plaza - ask faculty why we visited L'Enfant Plaza
4:45 Visit Martha Schwartz's HUD plaza
5:00 Commence a driving tour of DC neighborhoods
Embassy Row
Adams-Morgan
Georgetown
Dupont Circle
Foggy Bottom
6:30 Check-in at Days Inn
Downtown/Covention Center
Dinner on your own  

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Friday, September 22nd

8:00 FDR Memorial

  

9:00 THE Mall - starting at Captiol
Capital grounds
East wing of National Art Gallery
Gardens behind Old Castle
Hirschorn Sculpture Plaza
Constitution Gardens
Declaration Signers Island
Einstein Plaza at NAS

Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Reflecting Pool/Lincoln Memorial
Korean Veterans Memorial
6:00 Finishing at FDR Memorial (best viewed at night?)

   

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Saturday, September 23rd

8:00 Wander on your own, museums on your own. If you want to go to the Holocaust Museum (and you should), you need to reserve tickets in advance. See the link below.
(Optional side trip to Teddy Roosevelt Memorial and Arlington Cemetery)

 
12:00 lunch on your own
1:30 Dumbarton Oaks & Georgetown
4:15 HUD (Martha Schwartz)

 
5:00 Old Alexandria, VA

6:30 Return to Days Inn  

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Sunday, September 24th

 

8:00 East Potomac Park and Sculpture
9:00 White House grounds, Pennsylvania Avenue, Hamilton Plaza
10:30 Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
12:15 Arrive at Inner Harbor, Baltimore Maryland
3:00 Leave for RU

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Some other things to see include:

You won't believe that you are just 10 miles downstream from these falls (which you probably won't see)

  
 
  For more info about DC, check out these sites...

·  DC-Yahoo! -- A thorough search site for info on anything and everything in DC.

·  Metro -- The offical site of DC's great mass transit system.

·  Eat Up -- Pick your restaurants befor eyou go!!

·  City Beautiful -- An explanation of the 1901 City Beautiful plan for DC.

·  The White House -- Official Site.

·  Sightseeing Map -- Hyperlink between map of the Mall area and building photos and info.

·  Getting Around DC -- Or, how to look less like an idiot in the Nation's Capital. Includes the unwritten rules of using the Metro. Little known sites.

·  DC Graveyards -- Ratings of the burial places around the city.

·  Holocaust Museum -- really worth the time...But requires reservations AND about 3 hours.