The way points of this bicycle route:
Start at Capital Crescent Trail, Bethesda Avenue, Bethesda
Look for the trail on the northeast corner of the Bethesda Ave./Woodmont Ave. intersection. The trail is immediately in front of the Thyme Restaurant, between the sidewalk cafe and the yellow bollards. The Interim Trail runs along the front of the sidewalk cafe, then goes around the far corner of the building to the trail tunnel under the parking garage behind the restaurant row.
Cross Connecticut Avenue at TL
Cross Jones Mill Road
Cross Lyttonsville Place
RT onto Stewart Avenue at Trail End
Follow "Detour"
LT onto Kansas Avenue
RT onto Pennsylvania Avenue
LT onto Michigan Avenue
BR onto Talbot Avenue
BL TSO Talbot Avenue
Cross RR
RT onto 4th Avenue
BL, becomes Grace Church Road
RT onto 2nd Avenue
Cross 16th Street at TL
LT onto Highland Drive
Cross Georgia Avenue
LT onto Watson Road
BR onto Edgevale Road
BL TSO Watson Road
Continue down hill to church parking lot.
BR exiting lot using driveway behind church
LT onto Colesville Road
USE SIDEWALK!
RT onto Sligo Creek Parkway at TL
Option to use Bike path here, or follow road
Cross Wayne Avenue at TL
Cross Piney Branch Road at TL
RT onto Maple Avenue
LT onto Sligo Creek Parkway
Cross New Hampshire Avenue at TL
Cross East West Highway
Cross Riggs Road
BR onto Sligo Trail
RT onto Northwest Branch Trail
At Basketball Court
West Hyattsville Metro
Cross Queens Chapel Road
BL at T
Continue Straight where paved trail ends
Keep round building on your right
Straight onto 37th street
At end of short gravel path
Cross Allison Street
RT onto Taylor Street
LT onto 34th Place (alley)
RT onto Bunker Hill Road
Cross Eastern Avenue
Becomes Randolph Street
Entering District of Columbia
LT onto 26th Street NE
RT onto Newton Street NE
LT onto 10th Street NE
at Brookland Metro Station
RT onto Monroe Street NE
LT onto 7th Street NE
RT onto Franklin Street NE
LT onto 4th Street NE
RT onto T Street NE
LT onto 2nd Street NE
RT onto R Street NE
LT onto Eckington Pl NE
RT onto Florida Avenue NE at TL
LT onto 1st Street NE
Cross New York Ave
Union Station
Restrooms and Food inside
BL onto Mass Ave/Columbus Circle at TL
BR onto Louisiana Avenue NE
Taft Memorial on left
RT onto Constitution Ave NW
US Capitol on left
LT onto 3rd Street NW at TL
RT onto Madison Drive NW
Smithsonian Museum
National Gallery of Art
Straight at Mall Path
Go around Washington Monument to left
BL to cross 17th Street
Stay on Path toward Lincoln Memorial
WWII Memorial on Right
Rainbow Pool on Right
BL to continue on Mall Path
Reflecting Pool
BL around Lincoln Memorial
BL onto Ohio Drive, toward TL
Cross Independence Avenue
RT onto Rock Creek Trail
Along Potomac River
Rock Creek Parkway
Trail Continues on right
Go under T Roosevelt Bridge
JFK Center for Performing Arts
Watergate Complex
BL at Thompson's Boathouse Entrance
Potomac River Shore at Thompson's Boathouse, heading up river via path
Washington Harbor Boardwalk (Walk Bike)
BR 31st Street Service Road at end of boardwalk
BL at K Street - becomes Water Street
Under Whitehurst Freeway
Georgetown
Straight onto Capital Crescent Trail
Fletcher's Boathouse (last public restroom)
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park
Entering Maryland
Bethesda - End Point
