District of Columbia Routes are
numbered highways maintained by the District of Columbia's
District Department of Transportation
The District Department of Transportation (DDOT, stylized as d.) is an agency of the government of the District of Columbia, in the United States, which manages and maintains publicly owned transportation infrastructure in the District of Columbi ...
(DDOT). In addition to these routes, there are several
Interstate
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States. Th ...
and
United States Numbered highways that pass through
Washington, D.C.
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The metro area is also served by three unnumbered, federally maintained parkways: the
Clara Barton Parkway
Clara Barton Parkway is an automobile parkway in the U.S. state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. The highway runs from MacArthur Boulevard in Carderock, Maryland, east to Canal Road at the Chain Bridge in Washington. Clara Barton Pa ...
, the
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
The Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, informally called the Rock Creek Parkway, is a parkway maintained by the National Park Service as part of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. It runs next to the Potomac River and Rock Creek in a generally n ...
, and the
George Washington Memorial Parkway
The George Washington Memorial Parkway, colloquially the G.W. Parkway, is a parkway that runs along the south bank of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, Virginia, northwest to McLean, Virginia, and is maintained by the National Park Service ( ...
(the latter on the west side of the
Potomac River
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, but a portion of it is east of the
Boundary Channel).
List of routes
The chart below consists of all District of Columbia Routes, including signed routes that no longer traverse the District of Columbia.
See also
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References
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External links
District Department of Transportation
Numbered highways