How to get fromSpringfield, VA to National Mallby train, taxi, car or subway

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There are 4 ways to get from Springfield, VA to National Mall by train, taxi, car, or subway

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Train
best
1. Take the train from 2 to 4Fredericksburg Line
36 min
$5–7
Subway
cheapest
1. Take the subway from Franconia-Springfield, Blue Line Center Platform to Smithsonian, Blue/Orange/Silver Line Track 1 PlatformBl
41 min
$2–7
Taxi
1. Take the taxi from Springfield, VA to Smithsonian Institution13.5 mi
16 min
$40–55
Drive 13.5 mi
1. Drive from Springfield, VA to Smithsonian Institution13.5 mi
16 min
$3–4

Springfield, VA to National Mall by train and foot

35Weekly Services

36 minAverage Duration

$5Cheapest Price

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Distance: 14.1 mi
Duration: 36 min

What companies run services between Springfield, VA, USA and National Mall, DC, USA?

Virginia Railway Express operates a train from 2 to 4 5 times a day. Tickets cost $5–7 and the journey takes 29 min.

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National Mall

The National Mall is a national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The National Park Service (NPS) of the U.S. Department of the Interior administers the National Mall, which is part of its National Mall and Memorial Parks unit.

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Arlington National Cemetery(Opens in a new window)

Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose 624 acre the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars. The United States Department of the Army, a component of the United States Department of Defense (DOD), controls the cemetery.

Washington Monument(Opens in a new window)

The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States. Located almost due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 554 ft tall according to the National Geodetic Survey (measured 2013–14) or 555 ft tall according to the National Park Service (measured 1884). It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their pedestrian entrances.

National Gallery of Art(Opens in a new window)

The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Brown Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.

United States Capitol(Opens in a new window)

The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress, and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It sits atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Though not at the geographic center of the Federal District, the Capitol forms the origin point for the District's street-numbering system and the District's four quadrants.

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