Walking Tour of Washington Memorials

This was my third visit to Washington D.C and the first time I would be visiting with my daughters, I had to make it a special and memorable experience for them so after some research and planning on how to see all the memorials and monuments in a structured order I decided we should start-off with the Jefferson Memorial. Union Station has become our start off point as they have a large paid garage with capacity for over 2,600 cars. Parking for 10hrs cost $20, shorter durations are cheaper but most sight seeing visits will fit into this range.

Just opposite the the Union Station is a bus stop where you can board the Circulator NMC bus for $1 per rider. It takes you round the mall, monuments and memorials. so we hoped on one and stopped beside the Jefferson Memorial from where our walking tour of Washington D.C Memorials and Monuments commenced, the route we followed is shown in the map below. We visited the following sites in the following order:

1. Thomas Jefferson Memorial
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
3. Martin Luther King Jr Memorial
4. D.C War Memorial
5. Korean War Veterans Memorial
6. Lincoln Memorial
7. Vietnam Veterans Memorial
8. The Lockkeeper's House
9. The White House
10. Washington Monument

The entire walking tour is about 4kms and took us roughly 2hrs as we stopped at each site to admire the monument/memorial, read the inscriptions and take some memorable pictures.Read more