Comments on: Georgetown Intro for the Carless DC Noob

By: poo poo

poo poo — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:13:25 +0000

i used to live in georgetown (cecil place), right behind the georgetown park mall. it’s one of the quaintest streets in the city. no parking, so i had to consistently find parking every day of the week. it’s a pain, but that’s the price you pay, if you wanna play…

i sold the place a few years ago, and i have to admit, i rarely find myself traversing the city from capitol hill just to hang in gtown. there’s plenty of other nooks and crannies that i have yet to discover throughout this city (the latest one being the DC farmer’s market).

the one thing that was great about gtown was the fletcher boat house. rent a canoe and get your exercise in style right on the potomac. i also used to run the c&o canal on a regular basis.

all in all, it’s great to hang there on an ‘occasion’, but after living there for 8 years, i sort of feeling i’m on vacation, even though i’m just across the pool on capitol hill.

if you ever want to check out a cool little street, hit volta place. also, foxhall has a nifty little restaurant that only locals know about.

i guess there’s all kinds of interesting spots in this city….

By: Bill Walsh

Bill Walsh — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:18:38 +0000

Or take the Metro to Rosslyn and walk across Key Bridge. Very pleasant.

By: Paulo

Paulo — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:17:03 +0000

I really should have clarified I meant the best ways to get to Georgetown on foot *from Foggy Bottom*. Thanks for the additional tips; I did mention the Rose Park route in an older entry, and of course, yes, there's always the Circulator.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:48:27 +0000

My hatred is pretty rational; I don’t mind its existence, but going there is almost always painful. The canal boat tour is fun and a lot of it is pretty but if you drive in (the above options sound great but it usually isn’t up to me…) the traffic and then parking is just so arduous as to suck the fun out of anything that comes next.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:43:12 +0000

It’s the G2, not the G8 that goes along P st.

I live in the Northeastern part of Georgetown and "enter" and "exit" the neighborhood mostly by way of the beautiful Q St. bridge (which as I recall reading is the only purely masonry bridge that is curved in the entire United States).

I find that a lot of people have a pretty irrational hatred towards Georgetown, which is normally based upon cliches and a sort of reverse-snob snobbery. I understand that there’s plenty of stuff not to like about the place, but I find that people go out of their way to say how much they hate the place and never go there.

By: donny

donny — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:09:54 +0000

And if you happen to be on the opposite bank, then its a quick walk across the Key Bridge.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:00:02 +0000

…and the Circulator. Hop on it for a buck anywhere on K street from Union Station to Foggy Bottom and it will take you to Gtown.

By: Jenn L

Jenn L — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:33:22 +0000

There’s also the G8 that runs along P Street…

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:42:00 +0000

You can also get to Georgetown pleasantly across the P Street Bridge which brings you first into residential and religious Georgetown and then you can choose when to descend into commercial Georgetown.

There is also the bus — the 30s on Penn Ave. and the Ds from Dupont Circle.