Custom Washington DC Private Tours
Create your own Custom Washington DC Private Tour by choosing sites below. (This is not an inclusive list of attractions in and around Washington but includes the most popular.) Each point is equal to the number of hours of the tour’s duration including travel between waypoints.
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A Custom Washington DC Private Tour may include the following attractions. Those noted with an Asterix (*) are 100% out doors.
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- Anderson House (Society of Cincinnati) (2) (Closed Sunday and Monday)
- Antietam Battlefield (4) (*)
- African American Civil War Memorial and Museum (1) (Closed Monday)
- Air Force Memorial (1) (*)
- National Arboretum(2) (*)
- Arlington Cemetery (3) (*)
- Artechouse (2)
- Balls Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery (4) (*)
- Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (2)
- Belmont- Paul Women’s Equality National Monument (1)
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing (1)
- Caisson Platoon Barn. Visit Soldiers and horses who support military honors funerals. (2) (Tue-Sat)
- Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office (2)
- DC History Center (Washington Historical Society) (1)
- Decatur House (Closed Weekends) (1)
- District of Columbia World War I Memorial (1) (*)
- Dr. Mudd Home and Museum (3) (Open Wednesday and weekends from Apr – Dec)
- Dwight David Eisenhower Memorial (1) (*)
- FBI Education Center
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (2)
- Ford’s Theatre (2)
- Fort McNair (1)
- Fort Myer (1)
- Fort Ward (2) (*)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (1) (*)
- Glenstone Museum (3) (*)
- Heurich Castle House and Garden (1)
- Holocaust Memorial Museum (2)
- International Spy Museum (3)
- Jefferson Memorial (1) (*)
- John F. Kennedy Memorial and Center for the Performing Arts (1)
- Arlington House at Arlington Cemetery (2)
- Library of Congress (3)
- President Lincoln’s Cottage (3)
- Manassas Battlefield (4) (*)
- Marine Barracks Evening Parade (4) (Summer Fridays. 30 day notice recommended)(*)
- Marine Corps Memorial (1) (*)
- Marine Corps Memorial Sunset Parades (Summer Tuesdays) (*)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial (1) (*)
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine (4)
- National Museum of the Marine Corps (4.5)
- Navy Museum (2)
- Navy Cold War Museum (1) (Closed weekends)
- Pentagon (3) (60 day advance notice required in season. 30 days otherwise. Closed weekends.)
- Pentagon 9/11 Memorial (1)(*)
- Phillips Collection (2)
- Surratt Tavern (3) (Closed mid-December thru mid-January)
- Saint John Paul II National Shrine (2)
- Smithsonian Museums (3)
- United States Navy War Memorial (1) (*)
- United States Army Museum (4)
- United States Supreme Court (2)
- World War I Memorial (1) (*)
- Washington Monument (2)
Fun Fact!
During the War of 1812, the Washington Navy Yard was important not only as a naval support facility but was a vital strategic link in the defense of the capital city. As the British marched into Washington, holding the yard became impossible. Commodore Tingey, seeing the smoke from the burning Capitol, ordered the yard burned to prevent its capture by the enemy. Tingey's own quarters (now the CNO’s quarters) and the Latrobe gate were spared from the flames.