@elbows 65287 wrote:
I’m interested in riding from the Drafthouse area to the Capital Crescent Trail. I do this ride enough that I really should do some route-consideration but not enough to have done the route-considerdation yet. I usually ride this route on the weekends (typically need to be in Montgomery County by 9 or 10ish on Saturday mornings to play ultimate).
I have yet to try riding through Ft Myer. Can I really do this despite the gate closures (http://www.arlnow.com/2013/02/11/fort-myer-gate-changes-to-impact-cyclists/)? Can I trust the google cycle directions?
Thanks.
I LOVE riding through Fort Myer. It can help you in three ways:
1) All the time: you can by pass the pesky Columbia Pike/Washington Blvd interchange (and the pesky hill up to the Air Force Memorial) by taking the gate at 2nd St S and working your way to the Henderson Hall gate at Southgate Road and Orme St. S. You should be able to do this 24/7/365 and in both directions. From the HH Gate, the Washington Blvd Trail (along 27) will take you to Memorial Bridge.
2) Restricted times: you can enter the 2nd St S and take it to the Wright Gate, but only 5am – 6pm http://www.jbmhh.army.mil/web/jbmhh/JBMHH%20Maps%20&%20Directions/JBMHHMapsDirections.html . From there I guess you would take Meade to Key Bridge into Rosslyn.
3) Most beautiful: enter through 2nd St S, go down the hill through the cemetery. Either take the Memorial Bridge, or take the trail by 110 over to the Iwo Jima and to the Key Bridge. You can only go downhill through ANC and only when the cemetery is open. Seriously, best commute in DC.
That said, why not take the “secret trail” the North side of 50, behind Long Branch Elem. to Lyon Park, then Pershing to Danville or Barton (depending on hill appetite) to any of the 500 ways to Rosslyn from Courthouse? Avoids the yuckiness that is Fillmore around 50.