Mount Vernon Trail

Washington's Potomac path. The mostly flat, paved Mount Vernon Trail follows the Virginia bank of the river for 18 miles, from Theodore Roosevelt Island down to George Washington's estate, and it passes the end of Arlington Memorial Bridge, a short crossing from the Lincoln Memorial. A run along the National Mall, itself 2.2 miles from the Capitol to the memorial, joins it without any need for transport. Most visitors run a few miles along the water with the monuments across the river and turn when time runs out; planes into Reagan National pass low over the trail on the way.