Off to DC for three days.

[Golf battery 1,223]

Yep. Headed to to dc for with the family for three days to see the museums. Any you could suggest. I know im going to the spy museum. This will be the first time ive gone since i ran the marathon in 2000. Any new stuff.

[PK90 3,570]

NRA Museum in Fairfax.

[1LtCAP 4,263]

don't they have one of the best air museums in the country down there?

[1LtCAP 4,263]

yep...smithsonion air and space museum.......

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot 358]

New stuff since 2000 probably would be:

 

- Museum of the American Indian (has the best cafeteria on the Mall IMHO)

- Udvar-Hazy Center of Air & Space out in Chantilly near Dulles

- USMC Museum in Triangle

- Holocaust Museum but it's a real downer

[Golf battery 1,223]

Sorry incorrect. I was there in 2009 for the last one i ran there.

[Golf battery 1,223]

Is the spy museum worth it.

[Golf battery 1,223]

Gotta go to the usmc museum. Ill take that advice.

[CageFighter 236]

Gotta go to the usmc museum. Ill take that advice.

 

its right off 95, great place!!  

[Malice4you 627]

See if you can get tickets in advance for spy museum. My GF and I tried to go last day we were in DC back around cherry blossom time, line forspy museum was around the damn block. Can't say if it is worth it - we didnt bother trying after seeing that line.

 

We did hit up American History, Air & Space, Natural history, Botanical Gardens - all ones we both enjoyed. She wanted to go to Native American, so we did that instead of Spy. I personally didnt find it that interesting, just never really been my thing.

 

I thought I heard NRA museum is near DC. Didnt really research beforehand, and didn't get to that either. Fucking traffic around DC made me want a tank to drive over idiots...

 

Good luck, have fun. And avoid driving any times there might be traffic, like rushhour, or any other time, ever.

 

And make sure you have no spent casings in the car/trunk in DC...I always find .22 casings in my footwell from my boots...

[Candyman87 10]

And make sure you have no spent casings in the car/trunk in DC...I always find .22 casings in my footwell from my boots...

 

This is the important part... I have someone else go through my car before I leave for DC. Better safe than sorry because I always leave a piece of brass I picked up on my way out of the range and leave it in my center console or something silly.

 

As far as what to do? Spy Museum, National Museum of American History, National Air and Space Museum, and National Archives if you haven't been. I've also really enjoyed the National Museum of the American Indian... I still have a few Smithsonians that I haven't been to.

 

Keep meaning to get to the Marine Corps Museum, NRA Museum and Udvar-Hazy Center, but I haven't had the chance.

[gleninjersey 2,141]

As others have mentioned, National Museum of U.S. Marine Corps. Went earlier this year. You won't be disappointed. It's a short drive from DC.

 

http://www.usmcmuseum.org/index.asp

[njpilot 671]

The NRA Museum is worth the trip, but it isn't in DC, but as stated, in Fairfax, VA.

 

If you are into aviation at all and decide to go to the NRA Museum, then plan on Udvar-Hazy. It is just south of Dulles Airport, not too far from The NRA.

 

Been about 10 years since I've been there, but they had the Space Shuttle Enterprise, an SR71 as well as many other historic aircraft. The museum entry is free, you pay to park, so if you took a bus there you wouldn't pay for the museum. Obviously if you have a few people in your family and go in one car, it's one fee to park, think it was something like $12 10 years ago.

 

Also, as stated, the Smithsonian is definitely worth it. Just realize it's huge and can take days if not weeks to see everything.

 

Of course you have all the monuments to see which is great for the kids, as well as the war memorials.

 

Have a good trip.

 

DC, with it's history could be a great place if it wasn't for all the criminals. Those on the street as well is in the Capitol and other gov't buildings.

[Golf battery 1,223]

Any idea how far away the NRA museum is from central dc. Drive time. ?

[T Bill 649]

21 Miles and a half hour west of Washington. Remember to go around the side of the building and at least peak in at the firing range, worth a look

[PK90 3,570]

21 Miles and a half hour west of Washington. Remember to go around the side of the building and at least peak in at the firing range, worth a look

 

Or take your guns and take a 20 minute course, then shoot away.

[njpilot 671]

Or take your guns and take a 20 minute course, then shoot away.

That would be great, except of course, since you will be in DC and if you don't have a place to store your firearms in VA while there, don't.

[Handyman 5,682]

I heard if you want to see the White House, you can just hop the fence and walk right in these days....

[njpilot 671]

I heard if you want to see the White House, you can just hop the fence and walk right in these days....

Well, probably run, not walk.

[Worn_Holster 2]

The Smithsonian actually has so much stuff that they have to rotate the exhibits from their storage facilities to make an attempt to show everything that they have. All the Smithsonians are worth checking out again if you haven't been there in a while.

[bhunted 887]

Avoid 95 around DC as much as possible. It's an abortion. Adding EZ Express, renumber exits, you name it. Was just down there. Pulled my hair out driving in circles.

 

 

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[Malice4you 627]

Oh, and watch for speed cameras...I forgot that they are in use in multiple places on the way down...  Thankfully, I only saw signs about it, and don't know about it from firsthand knowledge in the form of a ticket in the mail.

[maintenanceguy 510]

Spy Museum is good.

 

Take the Metro to Chinatown for lunch - interesting.  If you haven't taken the metro before, it is the best in the world.   There's a hidden metro station  right in the middle of the mall near the carousel.  

 

The kids love to eat at the vendor vans behind the air and space museum - take the "back" doors out to the street.  I don't know why it's so much fun to order pizza and egg rolls from a van with a window but you'd think we were in Disney world.  Sit on the steps to eat and feed the birds by hand - if you're still enough.

 

And the NRA museum will take you an hour to see on the way home.  There's a shooting range in the back of the NRA museum building that's open to NRA members pretty cheap.  I discovered it when I got lost in the parking lot and will be taking a handgun down to keep in the hotel next time I go just so I can say I shot at the NRA headquarter's range.

 

We do DC about once a year with the kids.  Always stay in Alexandria and metro wherever we want to go.

[Dr. KGM 1]

The Vietnam War Memorial Wall is well worth seeing.

[njpilot 671]

911 Memorial and Arlington Cemetery

[Golf battery 1,223]

So far. Nra museum. Going to their indoor range. 50 yard. Marine corps museum. Vietnam memorial. Spy museum. Hopefully my kids will get something out of the first three.

[maintenanceguy 510]

The Vietnam War Memorial Wall is well worth seeing.

 

We just happened to be at the Vietnam memorial on Veteran's Day a few years ago.  It wasn't planned that way.  The place was overrun with vets in uniforms or at least in hats and jackets.   That was an amazing way to see the wall.  Names engraved in granite is impressive but ten thousand vets in quiet lines patiently waiting to see the wall, greeting each other, crying together, really made it stick.  Even my 5 year old (he's older now) was silent.

[njpilot 671]

So far. Nra museum. Going to their indoor range. 50 yard. Marine corps museum. Vietnam memorial. Spy museum. Hopefully my kids will get something out of the first three.

The Vietnam Memorial is right by the World War II and Korean War Memorials as well as the Lincoln Monument and Reflecting Pool.

 

From there, you're not too far from the Washington and Jefferson Memorials.

[Worn_Holster 2]

I drive to DC regularly to visit family. I never use 95 anymore. I do I-78W to Allentown, 222S to Lancaster, 30W to York, 83S to I-695, 70W to 29S, and 29S through to Silver Spring/DC. It takes 1/2 hour longer than 95 on a good day, but is always consistant and only a $1 toll leaving Jersey on I-78.

[bhunted 887]

I drive to DC regularly to visit family. I never use 95 anymore. I do I-78W to Allentown, 222S to Lancaster, 30W to York, 83S to I-695, 70W to 29S, and 29S through to Silver Spring/DC. It takes 1/2 hour longer than 95 on a good day, but is always consistant and only a $1 toll leaving Jersey on I-78.

Have to try that. Going down 95 cost me over 36 bux in tolls.

 

 

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